How Seychelles Lives on Tourism and Tuna
The Seychelles economy explained: Africa’s richest country per head earns about US$19,400 a person from tourism and tuna, yet imports...
October 1, 2026Topic
Tourism
Bahamas Tourism Association Names Sandy Sands Interim President as Weech Joins Ministry
The main Bahamas tourism association names Sandy Sands interim president as Jackson Weech joins the ministry, after a record 12.5...
September 30, 2026
US Makes Uganda First Test of Trade Over Aid Push With US$1.2 Billion Plan
Uganda is the first test of Washington's Trade Over Aid push: a US$1.2 billion tourism and coffee pipeline pitched in...
September 30, 2026
South Africa Tourism Misses US$400 Million as Morocco and Tunisia Grow
South Africa missed an estimated US$400 million in overseas tourist spending in 2025, BDO says, even as arrivals beat 2019...
September 30, 2026
Ghana’s Accra Airport Picks Up Two More Passenger Service Honours
Accra's main airport, renamed from Kotoka in February, won two honours from Africa's airport body in Abuja, weeks after two...
September 29, 2026
Tanzania Closes Two Kilimanjaro Climbing Routes as Wildfire Spreads
Tanzania has shut two of the six climbing routes on Mount Kilimanjaro as a wildfire spreads, the second blaze on...
September 29, 2026
Côte d’Ivoire Bets on AI to Grow Tourism, Now 8.7% of Its Economy
Côte d’Ivoire tourism now makes up 8.7% of the economy after 6.7 million visitors in 2025; the next plan puts...
September 28, 2026
Tunisia’s Plastic Pollution Could Cost Up to US$10 Billion by 2040
Tunisia plastic pollution costs US$170–560 million a year and could total US$10 billion by 2040 without action, a new Greenpeace...
September 28, 2026
Kruger National Park Fire Destroys Two Letaba Chalets
A fire destroyed two chalets at Kruger National Park's Letaba rest camp on 24 September 2026. Nobody was hurt and...
September 25, 2026