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Tourism
From addressing consumer fears to sustainability trends, the business of promoting tourism just got a lot harder.
Matthew Parsons, Skift | 2 years ago
Tourists pay up to $1,300 a night for steak and luxury suites in a national park full of wildlife that, merely a decade ago, seemed unsalvageable because of poachers. The turnaround by a nonprofit is a compelling example of creative problem-solving for national parks across Africa and the world.
Pauline Bax, Bloomberg | 4 years ago
Airlines
Sometimes sacrificing profits to grow pays off for a business, and Rwanda feels this is one of those times as its economy continues to expand.
Kamlesh Bhuckory, Bloomberg | 4 years ago
Business Travel
Rwanda is setting itself up as Africa's new big luxury tourism destination. And while mountain gorillas are the country's main attraction, new luxury lodges will help open up other regions of this small, yet highly diverse country.
Laura Powell, Skift | 4 years ago
Great news for Kenya, as well as its neighbors.
Christine Wanjala, Bloomberg | 6 years ago
Rwanda's tourism turnaround is notable for the speed at which it's made people tell a different story about a destination with a recent, brutal past.
Christopher Torchia, Associated Press | 7 years ago
Eturbo News | 9 years ago
Media and PR
Are anniversaries and events over-stressed on these lists? It’s refreshing not to see Brazil, in its World Cup, an automatic inclusion of all lists – even if it’s an understandable entry. But would anyone plan a trip to Cape Town just because it’s the World Design Capital?
Robert Reid, Skift | 9 years ago
The joint visa will cost $100, and besides being cheaper and more efficient than the current scheme, will boost the tourism economies in East Africa in a big way. Tanzania is missing out.
ETurboNews | 9 years ago
SkiftX
Rwanda's numbers -- like the expansion of FastJet -- are more evidence to the growing importance of intra-Africa tourism.
Saul Butera, Bloomberg | 9 years ago
