Africa’s hotel investment boom is real, but uneven
Africa’s hotel investment pipeline is booming, but growth is concentrated. The real winners will be the markets that convert promising pipelines into high-performing hotels.
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Urban Africa is becoming the next big tourism story
For too long, African cities were treated as gateways to safaris, beaches, and heritage sites. That story is changing fast. From Nairobi’s food, nightlife, conferences, and outdoor escapes to Lagos, Accra, Dakar, Marrakech, Stone Town, and beyond, urban Africa is becoming a destination in its own right.
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Zanzibar Is Rising Fast. Kenya’s Coast Should Pay Attention.
Zanzibar is not outclassing Kenya as a whole. But in focused leisure tourism, it is pulling ahead of the Kenya Coast. Kenya has the beaches, food, history, Swahili heritage, resorts, and location. What it needs now is a sharper coastal strategy, stronger branding, better infrastructure, and a serious push to make the Swahili Coast visible to the world.
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Silva Gigiri, Gulf Hotels Group, and a new level for Nairobi hospitality
As a strong signal around where the project is heading, the launch also picked up media coverage. KBC and KTN aired stories on the project and the show house reveal, while Citizen covered Silva Gigiri in its digital news edition.
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Africa Forward Summit and the post-aid era
The Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi was an unambiguous example of how Africa-Europe relations have moved firmly into the post-aid era. “Trade, not aid” has been around as a slogan for decades. In Nairobi, it became the actual agenda: trade, investment, infrastructure, financing, and partnership. Co-hosted by Kenya and France on 11–12 May 2026, the…
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Africa’s tourism boom is real. Now it needs open borders and open skies
Africa’s tourism boom is real. In 2025, the continent was the world’s fastest-growing tourism region, with arrivals up about 8% to roughly 81 million visitors. This is no longer just recovery. It is growth. The demand is there. But African destinations are still making it too hard to capture. The continent has the product: wildlife,…
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Africa Has a Tourism Marketing Problem. Its Beaches Prove It.
Africa’s beaches can compete with the best in the world, but global rankings rarely show it. The problem is not the coastline. It is visibility, positioning, and marketing power.
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Why Kenya must act now to revive JKIA’s Greenfield Terminal
JKIA once had a stronger claim as East Africa’s leading aviation hub, but regional competition is moving fast. Addis Ababa has expanded aggressively, Kigali is building for the future, and Nairobi risks slipping behind. Reviving the Greenfield Terminal and reconsidering a second runway would not just upgrade an airport. It would strengthen Kenya’s tourism, trade, airline connectivity, and wider economic position.
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Trans-African infrastructure: a vital tool to ignite tourism and trade
The Trans-African Highway network, a bold blueprint conceived to foster economic integration on the African continent, has been a captivating vision since its inception in 1971. Initiated by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the project aims to integrate the continent through an expansive road network. Despite political obstacles and inconsistent collaboration between…
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The Impact of Airspace Liberalization on Tourism and Trade in 2023
Africa has the demand, destinations, and trade potential. What it still lacks is affordable, practical air connectivity. This article looks at how high flight costs hold back tourism and business across the continent, and why airspace liberalisation could become one of Africa’s most important growth levers.
