Travel news overview

• Accomodation
• Travel-tech
• 04/02/2022 20:58

96% of travelers reads reviews when researching a hotel

According to TripAdvisor, 96% of travelers read reviews when researching a hotel. Today, the guest experience is more visible than ever before. Reviews are front and center for the world to see, whether on dedicated review sites or OTAs. If you provide a great guest experience, a 5-star review is likely your reward.

In How to Respon… read more

• Beyond Africa
• 04/02/2022 20:55

Current surge in travel bookings could cause severe financial problems for many SME travel agencies

Those who haven’t already got in place sufficient credit lines and efficient, automated financial payments systems could well face trading difficulties – and in extreme cases even go out of business.

Payments company Nium reports January’s net sales for travel agents are up by 700% year-on-year – an unprecedented situation placing enormous… read more

• Beyond Africa
• 04/02/2022 20:51

Millions flock to Dubai as city leads tourism recovery

Dubai welcomed 7.28 million international overnight visitors last year, representing 32 per cent year-over-year growth on the figure for 2020.

However, the number is still well below the 16.7 million international guests the emirate welcomed in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic struck.

Nevertheless, last year was one of recovery for… read more

• Cruise
• 04/02/2022 07:14

MSC Cruises to bring two cruise ships to South Africa again for 2022/23 season

MSC Cruises South Africa is returning to form for the 2022/23 cruise season, with plans to homeport two cruise ships in the country for the first time since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. MSC Cruises will homeport MSC Sinfonia in Cape Town and MSC Orchestra in Durban for the winter cruise season between November, 2022 and March… read more

• Flights
• 04/02/2022 07:14

AFRAA releases airlines’ performance updates for January 2022

The African Airline Association (AFRAA) said the number of people infected by the Omicron Covid variant continues to increase and has resulted in some countries putting in place panic measures against international travel.  Globally, the number of cases has reached 350 million and 10.7 million in Africa.

According to AFRAA, str… read more

• Flights
• 04/02/2022 07:10

Rescue Plan announced for Air Seychelles

Air Seychelles will pay off only $27.8 million out of the $76 million initial debt owed to bondholders as part of the national airline’s rescue plan in an agreement between the company’s administrators and its creditors.

One of the administrators, Bernard Pool, said in a press release on Friday, that consultations wil… read more

• Flights
• 04/02/2022 07:09

Kuwait Airways adds Casablanca to its African network

With the reopening of its airspace scheduled for February 7, Morocco will once again welcome a good number of international airlines. New carriers are also eyeing the destination, such as Kuwait Airways.

Kuwait Airways plans to add five new routes to its network in 2022. Among these is the service to Casablanca in Morocco.… read more

• Flights
• 04/02/2022 07:09

Saudia strengthens in Africa by launching direct flights to Entebbe, Uganda

Labour exports and bilateral trade between Saudi Arabia and Uganda are set to gain momentum with the opening of a direct air link between the two countries.

Saudi Arabia and Uganda are getting a little closer by air. Indeed, the flag bearer of the Persian Gulf country inaugurated on Wednesday 2 February a direct line betwe… read more

• Flights
• 03/02/2022 19:13

Over 80,000 passengers recorded at Bukoba Airport

A total of 89,948 passengers were recorded at the Bukoba Airport between 2019 to last year, it has been disclosed.

Bukoba Airport Manager, Ms Cecilia Kamwela informed the Minister for Works and Transport Professor Makame Mbarawa during his recent tour of Kagera that 45,450 passengers were recorded during 2019/2020 while 44,48… read more

• Travel-tech
• 03/02/2022 19:12

Google Cloud, Comair to provide seamless travel experiences in sub-Saharan Africa

Comair completed its infrastructure optimisation plans as it migrated six labour-intensive, on-premise data centres to Google Cloud. The migration of traditional IT infrastructure enables the airline to run key workloads that include important financial data, secure customer reco… read more