Please remember to register on this website, so we can send you your dose of travel news customized as per your requirements.
Ship Preview: Costa Toscana
Costa Toscana features more than 2,600 cabins, 21 restaurants, 19 bars, 4 swimming pools, a theatre, spa, kids’ facilities, and several new to the line attractions across her 180,000 gross tons and 17 passenger decks.
Delivered in 2021 at the tail-end of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Costa Toscana was presented by Costa Cruises… read more
MSC vaccine mandate for Durban season gets negative response from SA public
MSC Cruises on Wednesday confirmed that its South African cruise season out of Durban would go ahead as planned amid the Omicron variant of COVID-19, but also announced that vaccination would be mandatory. The decision by MSC Cruises to implement a vaccine mandate for its roundtrip cruises out of Durban during the 2021/22 cr… read more
Europa cruise ship arrives in Cape Town for curtailed turnaround
Hapag-Lloyd’s luxury cruise ship Europa has docked in Cape Town for a significantly curtailed turnaround in the city amid ongoing concerns over the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Europa arrived in Cape Town on Tuesday, where she was meant to stay overnight and then depart on a roundtrip cruise along the South African and Namibian coasts, in… read more
Norwegian Cruise Line cancels Cape Town season due to Omicron travel ban
Norwegian Cruise Line has become the first to cancel the entirety of its South African cruise season due to the travel restrictions imposed on the country due to a new variant of COVID-19. Norwegian Cruise Line was meant to deploy its ship Norwegian Jade in Cape Town during December, 2021 and January, 2022, but has cancelled all five roun… read more
MSC Orchestra bound for Durban in spite of Omicron variant
MSC Cruises appears to be planning to go ahead with its South African cruise itineraries, despite the travel bans on South Africa due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19. MSC Cruises’ ship MSC Orchestra appears to still be scheduled to homeport in Durban, sailing roundtrip in the Indian Ocean between December, 2021 and April, 2022.
A… read more
MSC Cruises names AED2.9 billion MSC Virtuosa cruise ship in Dubai
MSC Virtuosa has been named in Dubai, becoming only the second cruise ship ever to do so, and the largest ever to homeport in the Arabian Gulf. MSC Cruises newest Meraviglia Plus-class cruise ship was named by silver screen icon Sophia Loren in Port Rashid alongside at the Dubai Cruise Terminal, ahead of the ship’s maiden cruise season in the Ar… read more
South African 20 ship 2021/22 cruise season hangs in the balance
South Africa’s six cruise ports will be visited by 20 cruise ships during the coming 2021/22 cruise season, according to the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA). The resurgence in cruise traffic comes after the South African government moved the country to an adjusted COVID-19 Alert Level 1, which meant cruises were allowed to resume… read more
Norwegian Cruise Line rolls out major deals for Middle East and South Africa
Norwegian Cruise Line’s Black Friday deals (70% off on second passenger sharing the same cabin) expire today, but the cruise line is still offering extensive deals on select Middle East and South Africa sailings. On Norwegian Jade’s South African cruises roundtrip out of Cape Town in 2022, and her Dubai to Cape Town cruise in December, 20… read more
Crystal Cruises shows off new submarine ahead of Cape Town cruise
Crystal Cruises has debuted the submersible aboard its new explorer cruise ship Crystal Endeavour ahead of her upcoming South African cruise. Crystal Endeavour is one of the most luxurious expedition cruise ships in the world, and carries her own submersible for independent exploration.
The submersible aboard the new Crystal Endeavo… read more
Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal opens ahead of 150,000-guest season
The new Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal has received its first cruise passengers with the arrival Thursday of AIDAbella, ahead of a grand opening season of several dozen cruise calls.
AIDAbella arrived alongside at the new Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal on Thursday carrying just over 1,000 passengers, but they are the first of more than 150,0… read more
travelnews.africa is the first of its kind portal exclusively servicing travel agents in the Sub Saharan Africa Region with travel news from various sectors of travel i.e. airlines, hotels etc.
Our travel news does not only focuse on transportation like airlines and rail, but also on hotels, IT, cruises, and other areas of interest for travel agents. Our travel news is not only for the benefit of the traveler but also serves to update and inform travel staff in the Sub Saharan Africa Region on the latest travel news and developments.
travelnews.africa is unique in the way it assists travel readers in sub Saharan Africa to be up-to-date in sub Saharan Africa with the latest news on a daily basis, and provides concise & relevant information without the waffle making it convenient for you to keep you and your colleagues up-to-date, to better inform customers and offer precise recommendations.
Our travel news portal has refined navigation so you can search per country in sub Saharan Africa, scroll to the bottom of the website to find a list of the countries, double click on a country to get that country’s news. and you could search per sector in travel i.e. flights, leisure, rail, IT etc. (at the top of the website). Or you could search the news portal by using specific words or phrases and entering these into the search bar and clicking search.