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Lift CEO: Legacy airline models are broken
South Africa’s aviation industry has been massively transitioning in recent years. Veterans have gone through financial and operational turmoil while new players are emerging. Jonathan Ayache, the CEO of recently-launched Lift, expresses that the legacy model is broken and that the industry needs to adapt.
Challenging conditions
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Africa countries ready to welcome travellers; says pandemic helped reinvent the sector
Africa’s Travel and Tourism Summit (ATTS) is set to reignite the continent’s travel sector after the effects of Covid-19. The
summit's theme is Reawakening Africa, a fitting title considering the
industry is doing all they can to rebuild a sector hard hit by Covid-19.
Deputy Minister of Tourism, Amos Fish Mahlalela, said at the … read more
OTA Insight furthers growth with RMS Cloud partnership
OTA Insight, the cloud-based data intelligence platform for the hospitality industry, unveiled the incorporation of RMS Cloud’s property management system (PMS) into Revenue Insight, the leading business intelligence solution in the industry.
RMS Cloud, the globally renowned PMS provider to the hospitality industry, trusted by more … read more
Togo launches an int'l tender for a solar power plant at Lomé airport, ASKY's hub
The deployment of clean and renewable energy is one of the priorities of Togo's energy policy. And today, the country has made its civil aviation one of the main areas of experimentation, attaching particular importance to environmental protection and the control of greenhouse gas emissions.
Moving towards digital documentation of Covid-19 status
Vaccination certificates are nothing new. They are health documents that record a vaccination event - traditionally as a paper card - with key details including the date, product and batch number of the vaccine administered.
The Digital Documentation of COVID-19 Certificates is proposed as a mechanism by which a person's COVID-19-re… read more
Business travel continues moving forward but uncertainty around variants impacts
The business travel industry continues to report an overall willingness and optimism about the return to business travel. However, the rise of the Delta variant and other variants has become a cause for uncertainty and increased concern over the past month. This is according to the latest poll from The Global Business Travel Association (… read more
Emirates announces key commercial movements in Africa
Khalfan Al Salami, country manager Sudan, will become manager Morocco. Khalfan joined the Emirates commercial management training programme in 2015, and went on to train further in Madrid before taking on a commercial manager role in Kuwait. Since then, he’s held the Country Manager role in Sudan.
Rashed Salah Al Ansari, will become countr… read more
Ethiopia positions as Africa’s Aviation Hub
Ethiopian Airlines Group and the Boeing Company have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on positioning Ethiopia as an aviation hub for Africa.
Building on the two parties’ seventy years of shared history in aviation, the MoU aims at positioning Ethiopia as Africa’s aviation hub – “Ethiopia for Africa”.
Boeing… read more
Cabo Verde to host second UNWTO Global Tourism Investment Forum
Cabo Verde’s tourism haven of Sal Island is gearing up to host the second UNWTO Global Tourism Investment Forum.
The Forum is being held under the framework of the 64th UNWTO Commission for Africa (CAF) meeting scheduled from 2-4 September 2021.
The Investment Forum will focus on “innovation and investment” showcasing the inv… read more
IATA backs European Digital Covid Certificate as global standard
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) commended the European Commission for its leadership and speed in delivering the EU Digital COVID Certificate (DCC) and urged states to make it their global standard for digital vaccine certificates.
“The DCC was delivered in record time to help facilitate the reopening of EU… read more
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