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Top 25 Hospitality and restaurant groups based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 196 hospitality and restaurant groups headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 6,213 professional contacts across them, including 963 with verified work emails. Cape Town is the largest hub.
This list covers hospitality and restaurant groups headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest hospitality and restaurant groups based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 945 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Southern Sun is Southern Africa’s leading hospitality group comprising over 90 strategically located hotels and resorts, a wide collection of restaurants and more than 300…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 532 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a leading supplier at the forefront of the corporate travel industry, The Capital Hotel Group has achieved outstanding success since its inception in 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 448 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Premier Hotels & Resorts is a recognized hospitality brand, known for delivering authentic guest experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 348 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Life and Brand Portfolio (formerly the Harbour House Group) was founded in 1998 when Harbour House first opened its doors in Kalk Bay.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 327 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BON Hotels was founded in 2012 by a management team with a collective 100 years’ experience in hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Modern luxury experiences from Camps Bay to Constantia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 246 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Coastlands Hotels and Resorts is Kwa-Zulu Natal’s leading innovative hospitality company that prides itself with 4 and 3 star hotels, restaurants and conference venues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “International hotel School was established in the Carlton Hotel, Johannesburg in 1994, to meet the shortage of trained individuals for a service driven industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “First Group can be found throughout South Africa and in the United Kingdom, with our Customer Support Centres based in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and the Whicham Valley…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A VIBRANT OASIS crowned by Table Mountain in the heart of a dynamic city.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Thaba Eco Hotel we are passionate about professional, service-orientated hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LION ROARS HOTELS & LODGES is a family-owned hospitality company operating a portfolio of boutique accommodation, through the combined efforts of a carefully chosen team.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bossa is a privately held franchise company that seeks to marry the right entrepreneur with a successful “eat-in” restaurant model, offering excellent service and a wide variety…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Forum is one of South Africa’s leading events and conferencing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Hilton Durban Hilton Durban is an iconic landmark hotel offering superior accommodations in a supreme location near the Durban International Convention Center.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Well located on Durban’s Golden Mile, the hub of our city’s entertainment district, there is easy access to Durban’s sporting and corporate facilities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pple Hospitality (formerly HSC) employ over people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Experience unmatched Comfort and Exceptional Service at Indalo Hotels & Leisure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Growing steadily from a single travel agency in 1973, the family-owned and managed Singer Group now comprises a variety of companies in the tourism, hospitality, hotel and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oude Werf (the old Churchyard) is South Africa’s oldest hotel, built on the site of its first church in the Wine ‘capital’ and university town of Stellenbosch.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to In Good Company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pullman Cape Town, occupies an architecturally award nominated building in the best location.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Event World brings together corporate hospitality, event management and hiring services all under one roof.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “National supplier of glassware, crockery, cutlery, equipment & other products to the hospitality, hotel & restaurant industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established 2021, NoNameHG is the representation of our life long commitment to the hospitality industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: hospitality and restaurant groups. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names hospitality and restaurant groups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of hospitality and restaurant groups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name hospitality and restaurant groups. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Hospitality and restaurant groups based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 196 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among hospitality and restaurant groups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “hospitality and restaurant groups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names hospitality and restaurant groups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among hospitality and restaurant groups, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 963 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Hospitality and restaurant groups by metro
- Hospitality and restaurant groups in Cape Town51
- Hospitality and restaurant groups in Johannesburg30
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names hospitality and restaurant groups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many hospitality and restaurant groups are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 196 hospitality and restaurant groups headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Southern SUN, headquartered in Sandton, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most hospitality and restaurant groups?
Cape Town leads with 51 headquartered companies, followed by Johannesburg (30) and Pretoria (11).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 963 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 196 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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