Our Vision
Besides earning foreign exchange and increasing employment and manpower development, tourism can contribute to national growth in more qualitative ways. Tourism that promotes awareness of the environment of developing countries and improves appreciation of their cultural traditions can help protect that environment and revitalise and sustain those traditions.


Our Mission
Our mission is to create buildings of outstanding ethnic design offering the highest standards of service and product and providing management and our staff with an environment which enables all of us to deliver operating standards beyond the Level of our guests’ expectations, resulting in satisfactory returns to our stakeholders.


Core Values
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) focuses on health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of economic development. It is dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender. For more information, see the links below.

Whether in industrial development, tourism promotion or financial services, AKFED looks for projects that are not only economically sound, but also have long-term development potential for the country and the region. Its "hands-on" approach emphasises the development of human resources, particularly management, technical, marketing, and financial expertise. The Fund brings together international investment and know-how with local experience and entrepreneurial skills, creating partnerships among local institutions and individuals, leading multilateral development agencies and development banks. AKFED plays a catalytic role in stimulating and mobilising investment in the developing world. It facilitates participation by individual and institutional investors in national privatisation programmes and helps to create an enabling environment for private sector initiative.

Through direct participation in the management of companies in which it invests and through partnerships with institutional and individual investors, both domestic and foreign, AKFED builds strong local companies. This approach, combined with AKFED's sensitivity to the impact of its investments on the human and physical environment, helps to foster a sound and socially responsible private sector in the developing world.