Nicky Fitzgerald, Sales & Marketing Director, CC Africa

Nicky Fitzgerald is the Sales and Marketing Director of Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa), one of Africa’s leading luxury safari ecotourism companies deeply committed to delivering guest delight and its core ethic of “Care of the Land, Care of the Wildlife, Care of the People.”

Nicky is responsible for global marketing and branding of CC Africa, as well as all lodge development and guest experiences. The company had only three lodges when she joined it as Director of Operations in 1994. Now it has more than 40 exclusive safari camps and lodges in breathtaking wilderness locations across Africa and more recently India too.

CC Africa has received numerous prestigious ecotourism awards, including recognition as global winner of the British Airways Tourism for Tomorrow Award. For her work, Nicky was recognised as Relais & Chateaux Woman of the Year in 2005. CC Africa has one Relais & Chateaux and two Small Luxury Hotels of the World properties in its portfolio.  

Prior to joining CC Africa in 1994, Nicky – along with her husband and CC Africa CEO Steve – operated Halcyon Hotels – a hotel and restaurant group they founded in 1983. Besides its two hotels, the group eventually included five restaurants in the Cape region of South Africa – with Blues restaurant and The Bay Hotel as the flagships.