When it comes to growth relating to where travellers want to spend their holidays in 2020 and beyond, Africa will remain the world's top performer...
Guy Stehlik 27 Jan 2020
The first article provided an overview of tourism in Africa with this article focusing on Botswana...
Martin Jansen van Vuuren 27 Jun 2019
The first article provided an overview of tourism in Africa with this article focusing on Namibia...
Martin Jansen van Vuuren 27 May 2019
In 2018, 67 million international tourists visited Africa, a growth of 7% - more than the global average of 6% - and 8.5% of Africa's GDP, supporting 24 million jobs, and/ or 6.7% of all jobs on the continent...
Danette Breitenbach 6 May 2019
Cape Town, South Africa, was selected as one of 15 top global destinations for a case study by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation and the World Tourism Cities Federation...
Enver Duminy 12 Mar 2019
Africa's travel and tourism industry continued to record impressive growth in the past year. The continent hit a 63 million high in international tourist arrivals in 2017, as compared to 58 million in 2016...
Josephine Wawira 14 Jan 2019
The United Nations World Tourism Organisation's Zurab Pololikashvili shares his insights with Josephine Wawira on the growth of Africa's tourism sector...
Josephine Wawira 31 Dec 2018
The event industry is a dynamic and fast-growing sector with obvious synergies with tourism. When appropriately hosted, events have the potential to expand the visitor economy, provide media exposure, promote development, and stimulate infrastructure upgrades...
Glenn van Eck 5 Dec 2018
Investment in new technology provides the tourism sector with opportunities for novelty, aimed at providing a platform for designing new and tangible tourism products...
Josephine Wawira 12 Oct 2018
International tourist arrivals grew 7% in 2017, the highest increase since 2010...
Josephine Wawira 5 Sep 2018
The world as we know it is changing, with technology disrupting how we explore the global village...
Enver Duminy 23 Aug 2018
Tourism has become important to the growth of any economy, which is why so many countries are now reviewing and developing their tourism policies...
Robin Fredericks 13 Aug 2018
We chat with Tim Smith, managing partner at HVS Consulting to find out more about how sporting events like the 2018 FIFA World Cup has benefited the African continent and its tourism industry...
Robin Fredericks 13 Jul 2018
NYC & Company became a major blip on our radar when it locked in the first ever city-to-city partnership with Cape Town to boost tourism between the two iconic cities. We caught up with Makiko Matsuda Healy, MD of tourism market development, to find out what New York tourism is all about...
Cari Coetzee 15 Jun 2018
Although it's certainly not feasible for Africa to have thousands of city pairs because the traveller demand simply doesn't exist, there are several hundred city pairs that would certainly be sustainable...
Natalia Rosa 22 May 2018
One of the strengths of marketing travel to Africa is that its destinations offer so much diversity. How would an African Tourism Board even begin to market the continent as one brand when there are so many cultures, ethnicities, landscapes and languages that comprise the continent?
Natalia Rosa 15 May 2018
The inaugural Women in Africa Forum took place during World Travel Market Africa 2018. Hosted by Women in Travel CIC founder Alessandra Alonso, the forum aimed to highlight the importance of women entrepreneurs in Africa...
Ruth Cooper 14 May 2018
Each region is different and coping with different tensions. Mature economies have been struggling to maintain positive growth, and emerging markets have had their own challenges to deal with...
Cari Coetzee 3 May 2018
The African Continental Free Trade Area promotes the creation of a single market across the continent through the abolition of cross-border tariffs and greater efficiency at border posts. Opening up nearby markets can only bode well for African businesses...
Danny Bryer 2 May 2018
Wowing the world with what Africa has to offer. That is the purpose of Meetings Africa...
Danette Breitenbach 7 Feb 2018
In your dual role as travel marketer and Facebook consumer, the news that Facebook is going to 'clean-up' your News Feed will likely be met with a mix of joy and despair...
Natalia Rosa 16 Jan 2018
In 2018, there will be an increased swathe of people fully engaged in the sharing economy, communicating to the world the wonderfully enriching experiences that they have discovered...
Gavin Tollman 9 Jan 2018
“This is the sixth year in a row that travel and tourism have outpaced the global economy, showing the sector's resilience, and the eagerness of people to continue to travel and discover new places..."
Josephine Wawira 13 Oct 2017
For many, the mention of wine brings luxury, vineyards, dining and wining to the imagination. For other, fancies go all the way to romantic and exotic destinations...
Josephine Wawira 19 Aug 2016