Africa Tourism News

Africa hosts almost none of the world’s major association congresses, and Ghana now plans to change that with money from a pension fund. The Accra Convention Centre, backed by the …

The Maldives held the leading position in the Indian Ocean’s leading beach destination for 11 straight years. African islands have now won it three years running: Seychelles in 2024, Mauritius …

Most African destinations still make travellers assemble a trip from a dozen browser tabs and a few outdated blog posts. Sierra Leone has decided to end that. Its new Sierra …

Angola tourism now has a visa waiver, a new Luanda airport and rising arrivals. It still lacks one thing no campaign can supply: a reliable road between the visitor and …

Buyer applications for WTM Africa 2027 opened this week, and the detail worth noting is not the widening exhibitor list. It is who gets past the front door. RX Africa, …

Ghana is building a transport argument around a lake that has long served a very different purpose. The Volta Lake corridor is moving from an underused transport possibility towards a …

Demand is not what keeps institutional capital away from African tourism. Africa recorded 81 million international tourist arrivals in 2025, up 8% from 2024 and the fastest growth of any …

A queue at passport control can undo months of destination marketing in under five minutes. Namibia’s tourism authorities appear to have absorbed that lesson: instead of routing new investment only …

Zanzibar just posted its strongest August on record, and the country driving that record sits in southern Europe. The archipelago welcomed 124,481 international visitors in August 2026, an 18% rise …

Cape Verde closed 2024 with roughly 1.2 million visitors, a record for an archipelago of just over 500,000 residents, according to Jair Fernandes, president of the Cabo Verde Tourism Institute, …