By the time you are reading this, if a mountain gorilla tracking safari in Uganda or Rwanda is not on your bucket list, then maybe you are planning your next gorilla trek or perhaps it’s just the interest in great…
Wizz Air has added Marrakesh, Morocco, to its route network, with flights now available from Poland and Lithuania.Commencing in October 2018, Wizz will offer two winter season services to Marrakesh from Warsaw, Poland and Vilnius, Lithuania.Seats are already on sale…
“There is definitely a resurgence in Africa travel,” said Stacy Fiorentinos, president and owner of Classic Escapes, a family-owned boutique tour operator. While Africa has always been a popular market for the company, “it is perceived as a safer destination…
Aviation in Africa is experiencing a renaissance with the emergence of new privately-owned airlines, however collectively the industry needs to up its game to become profitable.This was the message by IATA VP for Africa, Raphael Kuuchi, who received a life-time…
South Africa’s Water and Sanitation Minister, Gugile Nkwinti has warned that as long as the conditions in the communities around water sources such as Hartbeespoort Dam do not change, there will continue to be difficulties, which in turn affects tourism…
The renovated port of Tangier in Morocco, inaugurated recently by Mohammed VI, has very high ambitions for cruise tourism. However, the number of visitors of the country fell by more than a third between 2016 and 2017.Initiated in March 2010,…
Africa’s premier hotel conference, the Africa Hotel Investment Forum, has unveiled a much-anticipated, packed agenda with leading figures from across the sector ready to reveal their personal paths to success.This year’s AHIF being staged in Nairobi, October 2nd-4th, will cover…
Uganda has announced plans to revive its national carrier. The plan was revealed by President Yoweri Museveni in the Ugandan Parliament on June 6, where Museveni said that the government would reinstate the airline “to invigorate our services sector”. In…
The previously exclusive-use-only Samara Manor House, in the Samara Private Game Reserve of the Great Karoo, is now also open to small parties, couples and individual travellers.The Manor House was previously only available to guests wishing to reserve all four…
Badplaas Forever Resorts South Africa announced the official launch of its Hydro and Spa on June 7, following various upgrades which commenced in October 2017.The upgrade has been under plan for two years, and commenced fully in October last year…
