FOSUN INTL(00656)'s Club Med Opens "Beach + Safari" Resort in South Africa, Accelerating Global Expansion

On September 17, ClubMed Lifestyle Group, the global high-quality holiday lifestyle leader under FOSUN INTL (00656), announced that Club Med South Africa Beach & Safari Resort (referred to as Club Med South Africa Resort) officially opened in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Caption: On September 17, Club Med South Africa Beach & Safari Resort officially opened, with over 200 guests attending the event. On that day, more than 200 guests attended the resort's opening ceremony, including Patricia de Lille, Minister of Tourism of the Republic of South Africa; Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli; Guo Guangchang, Chairman of FOSUN INTL; Xu Xiaoliang, Co-CEO of FOSUN INTL and Chairman of ClubMed Lifestyle Group; Stphane Maquaire, Global CEO of Club Med; and Moses Tembe, Chairman of Tinley Leisure. At the opening event, Patricia de Lille, delivering a speech on behalf of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, affirmed the value Club Med saw in South Africa, which has now translated into tangible employment, skills upgrading, and development opportunities for the South African people, especially local communities. She also thanked Club Med for bringing professional expertise and international influence to the project. Caption: Xu Xiaoliang, Co-CEO of FOSUN INTL and Chairman of ClubMed Lifestyle Group, delivers a speech. Guo Guangchang, Chairman of FOSUN INTL, said this is Club Med's first resort in South Africa. Fosun hopes to bring more industries to South Africa and create more benchmark projects here that carry both economic weight and social warmth, allowing Fosun's bond with Africa to go deeper and farther. Xu Xiaoliang, Co-CEO of FOSUN INTL and Chairman of ClubMed Lifestyle Group, stated, "Club Med's entry into South Africa is an important step for Fosun to achieve multi-party win-win results together with local South African partners. In the future, we hope to create more benchmark resorts that are both critically acclaimed and commercially successful, and we also look forward to deepening cooperation in cultural tourism, biomedicine, and other fields, jointly writing a new chapter of mutual benefit and win-win outcomes." South Africa's First All-Inclusive Resort Opens, Packing Beach and the "Big Five" into a Single Holiday Caption: Scenery of Club Med South Africa Safari Resort. As the world's first amphibious resort developed by ClubMed Lifestyle Group that combines Africa Beach with high-end Safari, and also South Africa's first all-inclusive resort, the resort represents a total investment of over 2 billion rand and is South Africa's most important tourism and resort project in nearly 50 years. It is reported that the resort has more than 480 rooms, of which over 400 are located in the beach resort and more than 70 are located at Vikela Safari Lodge. At the Safari Lodge's 18,000-hectare private reserve, guests can experience high-end Safari viewing of Africa's "Big Five." The project is approximately 30 minutes from King Shaka International Airport and about 45 minutes from Durban. Caption: Scenery of Club Med South Africa Beach Resort. At the beach resort, guests can enjoy surfing on the Indian Ocean beach at Tinley Manor. The resort has also launched the area's first surf school, covering surfing, sailing, stand-up paddleboarding, padel, and other sports, with guests coming from about 30 countries and regions. Caption: Guests experience diverse holiday lifestyles at Club Med South Africa Beach Resort. The innovative holiday programs launched by the resort place special emphasis on community impact and environmental protection. During construction, the resort created more than 2,300 direct and indirect jobs, as well as 600 permanent positions. It also provided approximately 1,500 additional jobs through suppliers and related industries in agriculture, transportation, maintenance, excursions, catering, and logistics. Among them, 84% of beach resort employees are South African locals, while the Vikela Safari Lodge team is 100% localized. Through cooperation between Club Med and the Nukakamma talent development center, more than 100 South African youths have joined the resort after training. It is reported that the resort's development and design also fully took responsible resource management and biodiversity environmental protection into consideration. It not only obtained a Green Four-Star rating from the Green Building Council of South Africa, but also actively promotes green environmental initiatives at the resort, including CECEP Solar Energy, water-saving measures, and programs to reduce single-use plastics and food waste. ClubMed Lifestyle Group Accelerates Global Layout Again, Anchoring the World's Scarce High-Quality Tourism Destinations It is understood that after launching its listing process in Hong Kong on August 28, ClubMed Lifestyle Group has sought more favorable external resources by broadening financing channels to further support strategies such as global expansion, new resort development, and brand premiumization. The opening of Club Med South Africa Resort is the latest milestone in ClubMed Lifestyle Group's globalization and premiumization strategy. The group currently operates 69 resorts across more than 40 countries and regions on six continents, with a target of reaching 85 by 2030, achieving high-quality scaled expansion. Caption: In April, Club Med Mediterranean White Ark Hangzhou Longwu Resort opened. Since 2026, ClubMed Lifestyle Group has successively opened new resorts. In April this year, Club Med Mediterranean White Ark Hangzhou Longwu Resort, Hangzhou's first tea-themed international high-end holiday destination, officially opened. In August, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for Club Med Exclusive Collection Koh Samui Resort in Thailand. Caption: In August this year, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for Club Med Koh Samui Resort in Thailand. At the end of this year, Club Med's first new village in Southeast Asia in nearly 20 years will also open in Kota Kinabalu. In addition, Club Med's layout in the world's scarce tourism destinations has clearly accelerated. Since the end of 2025, Club Med has signed new resort projects in China, Canada, Morocco, Brazil, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Indonesia, and Italy, among other places. Club Med CEO Stphane Maquaire, who attended the opening ceremony of the South Africa resort, said: "For 76 years, Club Med has always been driven by a pioneering spirit, opening new horizons, creating new ways to travel, and building lasting cooperation with all parties in the destinations where we operate." ClubMed Lifestyle Group stated that its accelerated global expansion is not simple replication, but is driven by "iconic destinations, premium all-inclusive offerings, and local experiences," focusing on high-potential tourism markets and the world's scarce tourism destinations as its core. From the Indian Ocean coast to African Safari, from South African local source markets to 30 global markets, the opening of Club Med South Africa Resort is not only an important move for ClubMed Lifestyle Group in Africa, but also a key step in its strategic blueprint to achieve 85 villages globally by 2030.