Travel news overview

• 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

• Destinations
• 21/01/2023 08:01

Botswana/South Africa: Three border posts currently inaccessible

The Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS), the revenue service and a government agency of the Botswana government, just informed the public that there is traffic disruptio… 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

• Flights
• 21/01/2023 07:58

TAAG to promote Luanda-Madrid route

• Rail
• Beyond Africa
• 20/01/2023 06:56

Ukrainian Railways relaunches Ukraine-Romania railway connection

The twice-daily connection between Ukraine and Romania has reopened. Back in August 2022, amid the Russian aggression and invasion in Ukraine, railway workers rebuild twenty kilometers of new track, which was closed for seventeen years. Ukraine waited another four months for Romania to complete their part.

The new network was build between… read more

• Flights
• 20/01/2023 06:54

Emirates’ flagship Airbus A380 returns to Morocco

Starting on 15 April, the airline will replace the Boeing 777-300ER aircraft currently used between Dubai and Casablanca with its flagship A380 to meet growing demand on the route. The A380 service, operating as EK751 departs from Dubai at 07:30, arriving in Casablanca at 12:55. EK 752 departs from Casablanca at 14:4… read more

• Flights
• 20/01/2023 06:53

Ethiopian Airlines to introduce Atlanta to its network

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest network operator in Africa is pleased to announce that it has finalized all preparations to commence a new service between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Atlanta, USA. Ethiopian will operate a four times weekly flight to Atlanta (ATL) starting from 16 May 2023.

Commenting on the launch of the new fl… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 20/01/2023 06:52

Uber resumes operations in Tanzania

Uber has today announced the resumption of its services in Tanzania following a pause that was instituted in April 2022. Uber’s Head of East Africa, Imran Manji says, “We are excited to kick off the year on such a positive note by re-entering the Tanzanian market.

We commend the Government of President Suluhu, her Ministries … read more

• Accomodation
• 20/01/2023 06:51

Hotel pipeline activity down around the world, except in Middle East & Africa

Middle East & Africa was the only world region to show an increase in overall hotel pipeline activity at the end of the fourth quarter, according to December 2022 data from STR.

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Europe

• Flights
• 20/01/2023 06:50

Airlink to resume flights between South Africa and Madagascar

South African regional carrier Airlink is set to resume operations between South Africa and … read more