Travel news overview

• Flights
• 17/05/2022 21:38

Air Burkina (finally) resumes operations with its own fleet

Air Burkina has been without an active aircraft since last month. It has a fleet of two ERJ1195s and one ERJ175, owned by the lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC).

Failures in their maintenance regularly lead to the disruption of operations of the Burkinabe flagship.

• Flights
• 17/05/2022 21:38

Praia guarantees EUR 7 million debt of Cabo Verde Airlines

Cabo Verde Airlines (formerly TACV) resumed commercial operations in December 2021 after 21 months of inactivity. Despite its renationalization and its ongoing recovery process, the Cape Verdean flagship is still living under financial infusions.

• Accomodation
• 17/05/2022 21:29

Hyatt Hotel leads Halal Tourism in South Africa

Halal tourism is currently one of the fastest-growing sectors of tourism, and the Hyatt Hotel group in South Africa is positioning itself as a leader in the emerging sector, ready to meet the demand.

With South Africa being one of the most desired destinations on the continent, the hotel chain is catering to the Halal traveler with … read more

• Flights
• 17/05/2022 21:28

Air Senegal intensifies its offer to Spain

With this decision, the Senegalese national company intends to satisfy the request consisting in facilitating the important movements of passengers during the holiday period. For the next summer season, Air Senegal is increasing its flight frequencies to Spain. From June 21, the Senegalese carrier will introduce an additional flight on … read more

• Flights
• 17/05/2022 08:30

Emirates Airlines now selling seats to Jamaica

In a historic first for Jamaica and the Caribbean, Emirates Airlines  is now selling seats to Jamaica. This arrangement opens gateways from the Middle East, Asia and Africa to Jamaica and the rest of the region.

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett made the announcement today following high-level meetings between Jamaica’s… read more

• Cruise
• 17/05/2022 08:30

Virgin Voyages’ Valiant Lady arrives in new Mediterranean homeport

Virgin Voyages’ second lady ship, Valiant Lady, sheded  her winter wardrobe and headed to her sunny new Mediterranean homeport of Port de Barcelona.

Eternally fashionable Barcelona – famed for its lively nightlife, sweeping architecture and world-class cuisine – will be the second homeport after Miami for the awar… read more

• Destinations
• 17/05/2022 08:29

South African Tourism forging closer ties with West Africa tour operators & agents

South African Tourism (SAT) is deepening its engagements with tour operators and travel agents in West Africa; mainly from Ghana and Nigeria.

Ghana and Nigeria have traditionally among some of the highest countries to drive tourism traffic to South Africa each year.

SAT through its West Africa regional office ensured that well over 5… read more

• Flights
• 17/05/2022 08:29

The renovated Kumasi airport will be operational earlier than planned in August 2022

Ghana's goal is to become a major air hub in sub-Saharan Africa. To achieve this, the West African country has undertaken a vast plan to modernise its main international airports.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Kumasi International Airport could be operational by August this year and open for international fligh… read more

• Destinations
• 17/05/2022 08:28

Emirates & Mauritius to jointly promote tourism to Indian Ocean destination

Emirates Airline signed another agreement with a tourist authority to jointly promote travel—this time to the Indian Ocean island Mauritius.

Emirates plans to increase its current service between Dubai (DXB) and Mauritius (MRU), located east of Madagascar, from 9X-weekly to 2X-daily fr… read more

• Accomodation
• 17/05/2022 08:27

Majority of Accra’s planned hotel developments on hold

While it seems that the total stock of internationally branded hotels in Accra is set to almost double, only 14% of the pipeline projects are actively under construction as many have been stalled due to the impact of the pandemic and currency depreciation, according to the Accra Development Pipeline Report by pan-African real estate data company… read more