South African National Parks (SANParks) has reopened its head office reservation call centre in Pretoria and repaired technical issues that occurred on the online booking system, according to a pre…
A unique perspective on photographic safaris
Makumu Private Game Lodge in the Klaserie Private Nature Reserve has introduced its new subterranean photographic bunker.Unique to the safari scene in the Greater Kruger region, the underground bun…
Market insight: Origin-country quarantines a major obstacle to East African travel
Quarantines of up to 14 days – imposed by a traveller’s home country upon return from a visit to a foreign country – are a major barrier to seeing the return of positive inbound t…
LGBTQ+ travellers are raring to travel again
LGBTQ+ travellers are ready to travel the world as soon as countries reopen their borders, and tourism businesses across the globe will have to do more welcoming and LGBTQ+ friendly marketing to in…
Airlink expands routes, frequencies
Airlink will reintroduce five routes in its expanded Level 2 network.The airline will commence flights between Johannesburg and Pietermaritzburg on September 7 with a twice-daily service, early-mor…
New data dashboard tracks travel recovery
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has launched a new in-depth data dashboard that highlights the recovery of travel demand for flights and hotels.The interactive COVID-19 Travel Demand …
Inter-provincial travel a ‘lifeline’ to accommodation providers
The opening of inter-provincial leisure travel in South Africa – which has now been formally gazetted following the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa over the weekend – will pro…
Insurance relief: Calls to include large companies
Insurance Claims Africa (ICA) is calling on insurers to include larger tourism businesses in their interim relief payments.In a statement, the public loss adjustment firm highlighted that it believ…
Malawi gears up to open borders
The Malawian government is working on developing risk management plans for the tourism industry as it gears up to resume international flights in the first week of September.This is according to Mi…
Mauritius – oil clean-up continues
The MV Wakashio bulk carrier, which ran on to a reef off Mauritius during July, broke in two on Saturday, August 15, according to a press release from Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority (MTPA).T…