Travel news Cabo Verde

• Cruise
• 05/03/2023 06:44

Fred Olsen 2025 World Cruise aboard Bolette to call in Cape Town

In 2025, Fred Olsen Cruise Line will bring its newish cruise ship, Bolette, to South Africa as part of its 106-night World Cruise from Southampton. Inspired by the first world circumnavigation by explorers Magellan and Elcano in the 16th century, the cruise will visit approximately 40 destinations worldwide.

Departing on Janu… 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

• Leisure
• 23/02/2023 14:03

Major hotel chains race to expand in Africa

Luxury hotels are expanding in Africa, with Marriott, Radisson Blu and Hyatt leading the way with new developments and acquisitions.

As international travellers troop back to Africa, some of the world’s major hotel chains are re-igniting a multi-billion dollar expansion race that began pre-pandemic.

Marriott, Radisson Blu… read more

• Flights
• 09/02/2023 20:15

TACV obtains a state guarantee for a moratorium

Weakened by the health crisis and the difficulties linked to its renationalisation, Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde (TACV) - formerly Cabo Verde Airlines - regularly requests the State as a guarantor to help it take out bank loans, which are essential for the implementation of its recovery plan.

• Cruise
• 30/01/2023 00:45

Norwegian Cruise Line sees strong demand for 2023/24 out of Cape Town

Norwegian Cruise Line has reported stronger than expected demand for its first cruise season out of South Africa, with more South African passengers than ever before in its history.

This prompted the cruise line to announce a second cruise season out of Cape Town for the coming 2023/24 cruise season as well, which is now also… read more

• Cruise
• 29/01/2023 12:57

Norwegian Dawn to replace Norwegian Jade in South Africa for 2023/24

Norwegian Cruise Line has confirmed that it will be returning to South Africa for the 2023/24 cruise season, but with Norwegian Dawn set to replace Norwegian Jade, which homeported in Cape Town for 2022/23.

Norwegian Dawn will also stay longer in the South African market as a result of higher then expected demand, with the sh… read more

• Flights
• 28/01/2023 01:31

TACV (ex-Cabo Verde Airlines) briefly returns to the domestic market after 5 years away

TACV (formerly Cabo Verde Airlines) suspended its domestic flights in August 2017, to focus on its international routes. The Cape Verdean national airline attempted a return to the domestic market in 2019, without success.

• Miscellaneous
• 27/01/2023 23:06

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

• Destinations
• 23/01/2023 19:52

Tanzania puts Tourism, Farming and Forestry in Spot Light

Today we witness particularly hard times for the entire world because no country -- poor and rich -- has been spared of inflation. The argument by experts is that effects of COVD-19 -- let alone other adverse economic conditions that prevailed before the pandemic broke out -- have spared no country and that these effects have smash the US econom… read more

• 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