Tourism

Fishermen in the Comoros Islands never lost the coelacanth. They called it kombessa and knew it long before science did. When a South African museum curator identified one in 1938, …

Oasis Overland has run a Trans-Africa expedition almost every year since 1997. In that time, it has never driven the same West African stretch of the Trans-Africa overland route twice. …

Packing for African climate diversity begins on a mountain. A trekker who sets off up Kilimanjaro in shorts needs a down jacket within days. The peak rises 4,877 metres above …

WTM London drew 46,500 attendees to ExCeL London in November 2025. The Bijagós Archipelago, a Guinea-Bissau island chain that UNESCO inscribed on the World Heritage List in July 2025, averages …

Twenty years. That is how long the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), the body that ranks the world’s conference cities, has kept its own annual congress away from Africa. …

A country can silence its guns and reopen its airports, yet remain trapped in the images that foreign audiences remember. For destinations recovering from war, civil unrest or mass violence, …

Ten million views in under 20 hours. That was the audience for the Ethiopia stop of IShowSpeed’s 28-day Africa tour, which began in Angola in December 2025 and ended in …

At the southern entrance to the Red Sea, where cargo vessels pass between the Gulf of Aden and one of the world’s most consequential maritime corridors, Djibouti has spent decades …

A £10 ticket may do more for the Africa tourism workforce than a year of recruitment adverts. WTM London, powered by RX Global, has opened its 2026 programme to students …

On 1 October 2026, Tanzania began charging eligible foreign visitors $44 for a government-issued insurance policy, regardless of what cover they already had at home. Kenya moved first. It gazetted …