Inside One Of The Most Beautiful All Inclusive Resorts In Africa (Zanzibar Tanzania) ✅

A lot of people talk about building in Africa. Very few have actually done it for 27 years. In this video, I sit down with Francesca and Simon, the founders and owners of Sharazad Boutique Hotel in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Their story is not just about hospitality. It's about love, patience, environmental integrity, cultural fluency, and what it truly takes to build something lasting on an island most Western entrepreneurs still assume they can figure out from the outside. Francesca is Italian, from the south of Italy. Simon is British, an engineer. They met in Zanzibar in the mid-2000s and never left. Together they built one of the most beautiful, sustainable eco-luxury boutique hotels in East Africa. They also built Frazzy Africa, a textile company that produces 100% Tanzanian cotton clothing and employs women in an industry that historically excluded them. This conversation is a masterclass in what it takes to actually build a business in Africa. The environmental study most people never do. The cultural fluency most people never earn. The 10 years of living somewhere before you ever try to build something there. And why Sharazad has grown into a place where travelers arrive as guests and end up buying property on the island. If you have ever imagined building a hotel, a hospitality business, or any kind of company in Tanzania, this video is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS VIDEO: ✔ How Francesca and Simon built Sharazad from a home into a boutique hotel ✔ Why they installed their own desalination system before they built their pool ✔ The environmental and cultural study most entrepreneurs skip and pay for later ✔ Why "cheaper" is the biggest misconception people have about building in Africa ✔ The story of Frazzy Africa and how they built a textile business that employs Tanzanian women ✔ Why 27 years on the island matters more than any business plan ✔ Simon's three pieces of advice for anyone trying to build hospitality in Africa ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎟️ COME EXPERIENCE TANZANIA WITH ME, LIVE. If this conversation gave you clarity on what's actually possible in Tanzania hospitality, the next step is being in the room with us. Travel, Move & Do Business: Tanzania Online Conference July 18th and 19th, 9am to 2pm EST 100% online Two full days with the investors, entrepreneurs, advisors, and families who are actively building in Tanzania right now. Real numbers. Real conversations. Real proof of what building on this continent looks like from the inside. 👉 JOIN THE WAITLIST: https://www.afrikainvestorsacademy.co... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 CONNECT WITH SHARAZAD BOUTIQUE HOTEL: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharazadbou... Website: https://www.sharazadzanzibar.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for weekly content on: Building businesses in African markets Real estate, relocation, and hospitality in Tanzania Diaspora wealth strategy What's actually happening on the ground ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 CONNECT WITH ME: Instagram: @ashleyinafrika Website: https://www.afrikainvestorsacademy.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A special thank you to Francesca, Simon, and the entire Sharazad team for opening their home and their story to us. #Zanzibar #Tanzania #AshleyInAfrika