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Botswana is quietly stepping back from its high-value, low-volume tourism model, the same formula the rest of Africa now studies as a blueprint. In April 2026, Tourism Minister Kagiso Mmolotsi …

Durban’s Point Waterfront has a cruise terminal that did not exist five years ago. Zanzibar is racing to finish one at Maruhubi to replace an overworked ferry dock at Malindi. …

In 1975, when apartheid-era South African Airways faced flight bans across mainland Africa, single-runway tarmac on the Cape Verdean island of Sal provided the essential refuelling stop for flights bound …

Flying from Lagos to Douala, a distance of under 400 kilometres, regularly demands an overnight layover in Addis Ababa or Paris, racking up airfares that exceed transatlantic itineraries. This spatial …

Ask anyone who has booked a flight between two West African capitals what it cost, and the answer usually explains why they haven’t flown that route twice. In December 2025, …

The Gambia and Senegal just did something most neighbouring African destinations still refuse to do: they built a permanent structure to fix what breaks between them, instead of promising to …

Cairo did not simply open a conference this week. It surfaced a number of African aviation officials have argued over for a decade: African carriers now handle under 20% of …

Namibia has stopped waiting for tourists to find it. On the 30th of July, the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB), the Namibian High Commission to Botswana and the Namibia Investment Promotion …

The AU Continental Tourism Strategy 2030 began with a single sentence, signed by tourism ministers in Nairobi in October 2018: Africa should become the preferred tourism destination in the world. …

Currency convertibility across African tourism sits behind a set of everyday frictions that most guidebooks never mention: cash import limits, exchange-rate spreads between official and parallel markets, and card networks …