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Adaptability over lock-in: reimagining the role of technology in Africa

There remains an uncomfortable truth about technology investment – rigidity costs more than it saves. All-in-one systems, long-term vendor dependencies and software lock-ins are giving way to a new reality where success rests on how rapidly an organ...

Mandla Mbonambi

Mandla Mbonambi

CEO of Africonology

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Developing Hunting Reserves & Resorts in the Middle East Region: Key Success Factors

Developing Hunting Reserves & Resorts in the Middle East Region: Key Success Factors

As global travel evolves, experience-led tourism is shaping the future of luxury and niche hospitality. While nature lodges and game reserves are long established in Africa, the Middle East region, though home to properties in natural settings, has ...

Annie Bastin Fernandez

Annie Bastin Fernandez

Associate Director, HVS Middle East & Africa, Dubai

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Developing Hunting Reserves & Resorts in the Middle East Region: Key Success Factors

Africa at a Crossroads: Preventing Overtourism Through Sustainable Practices

Africa at a Crossroads: Preventing Overtourism Through Sustainable Practices

Africa’s post‑COVID tourism resurgence is undeniable. In 2024, the continent welcomed approximately 74 million international arrivals—7.4 % above 2019 and a notable 13.5% higher than in 2023.

Kirsty de Groot

Kirsty de Groot

Associate Director at HVS Middle East & Africa

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Africa at a Crossroads: Preventing Overtourism Through Sustainable Practices

From Pipeline to Progress: What Africa’s Hotel Development Data Isn’t Telling Us

At this year’s Future Hospitality Summit Africa, the message from the stage was clear: pipelines are growing, investor interest remains steady and nearly every region is positioning itself as open for business. But beneath the optimism lies a more p...

Lee-Anne Singer

Lee-Anne Singer

Partner - Southern Africa Consulting, Dubai at HVS

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Digital intelligence - a catalyst for African growth

Africa’s transformation story is often centred around infrastructure. Cables, towers, devices, datacentres. However, transformation doesn’t start with hardware; it starts with people, with connections and insights on platforms designed to help compa...

Mandla Mbonambi

Mandla Mbonambi

CEO of Africonology

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888 - Eight countries. Eight days. Eight learnings. One Powerful Truth: Africa Must Be at the Centre of Global Tourism

In eight days, I had the honour of travelling across eight extraordinary countries—Namibia, Zambia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ghana, Ethiopia and Nigeria. Each one taught me something vital not just about tourism, but about transformation. Every...

Harry Theoharis

Harry Theoharis

Candidate for Secretary-General of UN Tourism

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Africa’s Opportunity: Tourism Powered by Education and Skills

Tourism is one of Africa’s most promising sectors, contributing approximately 8.5% to the continent’s GDP and supporting over 24 million jobs, according to the African Union and the UN Tourism. It is not only a vital engine for economic growth but a...

Harry Theoharis

Harry Theoharis

Candidate for Secretary-General of UN Tourism

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Babylonstoren in South Africa as the Pinnacle of Regenerative Tourism - Part Two

Babylonstoren in South Africa as the Pinnacle of Regenerative Tourism - Part Two

In this second half of the interview with Dalené Claassens, Hotel General Manager at Babylonstoren, a rural resort located near Paarl, South Africa within the Cape Winelands vinicultural region, we take a closer look at some of the key onsite featur...

Adam Mogelonsky

Adam Mogelonsky

Partner at Hotel Mogel Consulting Ltd.

Hotel Mogel Consulting Limited

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Babylonstoren in South Africa as the Pinnacle of Regenerative Tourism - Part Two

Babylonstoren in South Africa as the Pinnacle of Regenerative Tourism - Part One| By Adam Mogelonsky

Babylonstoren in South Africa as the Pinnacle of Regenerative Tourism - Part One| By Adam Mogelonsky

True hospitality is a story of people, the lands they live on, the foods they eat, the activities they do day in, day out, and all the cultural nuances that make life so joyous. Hospitality is also about giving back and stewarding the larger communi...

Adam Mogelonsky

Adam Mogelonsky

Partner at Hotel Mogel Consulting Ltd.

Hotel Mogel Consulting Limited

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Babylonstoren in South Africa as the Pinnacle of Regenerative Tourism - Part One| By Adam Mogelonsky

Designing With Purpose: Luxury Frontiers’ Impact at Babanango Game Reserve

Designing With Purpose: Luxury Frontiers’ Impact at Babanango Game Reserve

In the heart of Zululand, South Africa, lies Babanango Game Reserve, a once cattle-farmed landscape that now stands as a true testament to the power of environmental renewal. This reserve recently underwent one of South Africa’s most ambitious rewil...

Graeme Labe

Managing Director & Principal, Luxury Frontiers

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Designing With Purpose: Luxury Frontiers’ Impact at Babanango Game Reserve