Travel news Benin

• Flights
• 16/04/2023 22:12

Green Africa Plans Abuja Base

Nigeria's Green Africa Airways plans to expand its network from Abuja, the country’s capital, with three new domestic routes starting Aug. 12. The airline intends to fly to Ibadan and Kano twice daily and offer a daily flight to Sokoto. Service will also resume from Abuja and Owerri with four … read more

• Flights
• 16/04/2023 17:37

Green Africa spreads wings to Sokoto, Kano, Enugu, Ibadan in August, targets 16 routes...

Green Africa, has announced its plans to expand its network across Nigeria starting in August of 2023.

The carrier is to connect Abuja to Sokoto, Kano, Enugu, and Ibadan.

In addition, a second daily service will be added between Benin and Abuja and service will resume between Abuja and Owerri.

With this expansion,… read more

• Flights
• 04/04/2023 07:06

Green Africa launches Zero fare campaign, offers N25,000 ticket fares

Green Africa, Nigeria’s value airline, has launched a Zero Naira Fare Campaign on all its routes.

Customers will have the opportunity to fly for free to any of the eight (8) destinations Green Africa currently serve while only paying airport taxes and other applicable charges estimated to be about N5,150.

To participate, custo… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 23/02/2023 14:51

ITB Berlin: African Destinations make a massive return this March

One of the globe’s leading tourism market place, Internationale Tourismus-Börse (ITB Berlin) will be making a return to live (person-to-person) event since 2019 when it last held the event in the marquee Messe Berlin Arena.

Scheduled to take place from March 7-9, 2023 in Messe Berlin in the Charlottenburg province, this year’s event has Ge… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 27/01/2023 23:06

Tourism trade from Africa impressed with 2023 FITUR’s platform for business links

• Miscellaneous
• 21/01/2023 08:04

23 African countries attended FITUR 2023

A total of twenty-three (23) countries from Africa participated in this year’s FITUR in Madrid, Spain.

Participation from these countries will include state tourism ministries, boards, private sector businesses, organisations and individual travel and tourism stakeholders.

Fitur is a global benchmark event in the tourism sect… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 21/01/2023 07:59

Africa’s Growth to Outpace Global Forecast in 2023-2024

Africa is set to outperform the rest of the world in economic growth over the next two years, with real gross domestic product (GDP) averaging around 4% in 2023 and 2024.

This is higher than projected global averages of 2.7% and 3.2%, the African Development Bank Group said in  Africa’s Macroeconomic Performance and Outl… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 23/12/2022 20:43

2022 Africa Visa Openness Index shows improvement in visa policies across continent

The 2022 Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI) report shows African countries making progress in their freedom of travel policies, most of which had been severely curtailed by the Covid-19 crisis.

The annual publication, prepared by the African Development Bank Group in collaboration with the African Union Commission, is … read more

• Destinations
• 18/12/2022 13:05

93% of African countries improved their visa policies

A new report has indicated that 93 percent of African countries have maintained or improved their visa process. Reviewing their scores last year and comparing them with what was obtained this year, the report stated that relative to 2021, two-thirds of African countries have adopted more liberal visa policies compared to six years ago.… read more

• Flights
• 14/12/2022 05:18

Afrijet (finally) returns to São Tomé after nine-month suspension

Afrijet has served São Tomé regularly for the past six years.  However, in the first quarter of the year, the private Gabonese company, which is IOSA certified, left this market due to the deterioration of the business climate.

Since 1 December 2022, Afrijet has re-launched its route between Libreville and São Tomé… read more