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African Travel Inc. introduces 'Pride Safaris'
African Travel Inc. has introduced dedicated Pride Safaris for the LGBTQ community, including a new Southern Africa President's Family Safari.
African Travel president Sherwin Banda said Pride Safaris uniquely cater to the LGBTQ community. During these trips, LGBTQ travelers can rest assured they will be staying at camps that… read more
Madagascar welcomes the Airbus A220-300 in commercial flight for the first time
The Airbus A220-300 made its first appearance on Madagascan soil on Tuesday 26 October. The flight took place when Air Austral resumed its route from Reunion.
Flight UU611 landed at Antananarivo-Ivato International Airport at around 1.30pm local time. For this return to the Big Island, the Reunionese airline deployed… read more
Delta to deploy Airbus A330-200 as it sets to resume nonstop Lagos to JFK
Delta Air Lines, the longest-serving U.S. airline to Africa, will resume its nonstop service between Lagos and New York-JFK in December, restoring this popular route in time for the festive season.
Delta will operate nonstop flights between Murtala Muhammed International Airport and New York’s John F. Kennedy Inte… read more
Abu Dhabi says its ready as 2021/22 cruise season gets underway
Abu Dhabi cruise tourism officials have welcomed the start of the 2021/22 Arabian Gulf cruise season, which commenced this week with the arrival in Dubai of the first ship of the season, Mein Schiff 6 of TUI Cruises. Abu Dhabi is the second-busiest cruise port in the region for turnaround itineraries after Dubai, and will welcome more tha… read more
Kenya's Angama Mara launches new guest area with Map Room
Angama Mara, the award-winning luxury safari lodge perched cliffside overlooking Kenya’s Maasai Mara, has created a new Map Room to give guests a deeper understanding of the Mara, Kenya and East Africa. Comprising more than 60 maps, books, photography and artifacts, the Map Room is somewhere quiet for guests to spend time between g… read more
Hotelbeds enters strategic partnership with ZUZU Hospitality
Hotelbeds has announced a new strategic partnership with ZUZU Hospitality, a revenue management company that manages the distribution of more than 2,700 independent properties in Southeast Asia.
ZUZU provides independent hotels with an all-in-one hotel operating system supported with their revenue management and distribution … read more
Mozambique has further eased some of the preventive measures!
Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi announced in an address to the nation on 24 October 2021 the further easing of several preventive meas… read more
South African National Parks announces the dates of the SA National Parks Week 2021
South African National Parks (SANParks) has finally the dates for the 16th annual SA National Parks Week. The free access week will take place from 22 to 28 November 2021. The SA National Parks Week will only be valid until 26 November 2021 at the following National Parks - … read more
Network Tracker: The Global Market (w/e Oct. 24, 2021)
There was very little change in global capacity last week (w/e Oct. 24, 2021), compared with the previous seven days, as the total number of seats worldwide remained just over 79 million. The figure means capacity now stands at 71.1% of pre-crisis levels.
On a regional basis, capacity … read more
Facebook changes company name to ‘Meta’
Following the unprecedented scrutiny and widespread backlash over its business practices, the social media giant, Facebook on Thursday announced it has changed its company name to ‘Meta’.
Facebook who disclosed this in a statement issued on its official social media pages during its annual developer conference said the new name woul… read more
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