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Airlines
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Spirit's earnings purgatory, Hertz's brands revival, and cruise tourism in east and Southern Africa.
Rashaad Jorden | 1 year ago
Cruises
The rapidly rebounding cruise tourism market is providing African tourism with a lucrative opportunity to give destinations battered by the pandemic a new path to revenues.
Harriet Akinyi, Skift | 1 year ago
Business Travel
A pioneering female-focused private equity fund has backed a management buyout at Johannesburg's Club Travel Corporate, and it’s a sign of more things to come across Africa, according to its CEO.
Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago
Tourism
Countries in Africa are bullish on e-visas helping them to boost their tourism industries, but failures to overcome tech struggles are making any prospect of full recoveries soon an unlikely prospect.
Media and PR
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Dubai’s high-stakes visual marketing, an airline merger in Southern Africa, and Selina’s delayed IPO.
Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago
Travel Agents
Travel agents, sometimes called advisors, have seen many changes through the years, but the pandemic altered their profession in unimaginable ways. And that upheaval's not dying down anytime soon, with booking travel becoming more complicated and advisors seeing their roles as even more necessary.
Airline Weekly
Comair, South Africa's second-largest airline, ceased operations earlier this month and is being liquidated. Its failure leaves a vacuum in the country's airline market, Africa's largest, that other airlines will struggle to fill.
2 years ago
It was going to be a tall order for Comair to survive the double whammy of restrictions enacted after the first wave of Covid and the emergence of Omicron. The airline's inability to obtain funding made its decision inevitable.
Promit Mukherjee, Reuters | 2 years ago
Does Ryanair believe the only acceptable South Africans to fly on its planes are those relative few who speak Afrikaans?
The damage caused by the floods represents an enormous setback for South African beach resorts that still haven't fully rebounded from Covid. And as scientists predict storms will worsen along the Indian Ocean in coming decades, those destinations will continue to face weather-related hurdles in their recovery.
Siyabonga Sishi, Reuters | 2 years ago
