A catalyst for collaboration and revival
Travel agents must learn to collaborate and share some basic resources, or many players will be forced out of business as severe challenges hit...
Amadeus: Your best travel companion
If you’re anything like me, you can’t imagine life without your smartphone. Imagine you’re driving to the office and you realise that you have...
Q&A: Legacy Hotels – Leaving a legacy
Q: Can you summarise where you are with the Leonardo development? What has been done and what is still to be completed?
A: We are...
HTI: Hotels ‘get personal’
As with many things, we’ve come full circle!
For years, travellers were content to be unknown to hotel hosts…‘another booking, another room number’. Today, however,...
An Eye on West Africa
It’s budgeting season again, when hotel owners and managers seek to identify what’s going to happen in 2018. It all used to be so...
An Eye on West Africa
There’s not been a great deal of activity in terms of new hotel construction and openings in West Africa recently. I hear that work...
Eye on West Africa
Living in West Africa is, as I’ve written before, a bit of a rollercoaster ride. Up, down, upside down and turnabout – except that...
Nairobi office space
Did you know that over 50% of African citizens still need visas to visit their African neighbours?
Only 24% of African travellers can get visas...
Q&A: Moving forward
Despite its troubled financial situation, South Africa’s national carrier is making strides to recover its favourable standing. SAA spokesperson Tlali Tlali outlined some of the recent changes to the airline’s route map and fleet and updated Business Traveller Africa on the effect the oil price and exchange rate have had on the airline.
Q&A: Back on track
In its nearly 20 years of operation, Birchwood Hotel and O.R Tambo Conference Centre has made a name for itself as the go-to venue for large corporate or government conferences. But the times are changing, and so is this stalwart establishment. Kevin Clarence chatted to Dylan Rogers about what’s been happening at Birchwood over the last 18 months.
Fighting back
The hospitality and tourism industry in sub-Saharan Africa must adopt a new “adapt and innovate” modus operandi to meet the challenges produced by the...
Why grading gives you a competitive edge
Does being graded by an accredited grading assessor give you, as a tourism operator, a competitive edge over your non-graded peers? Definitely! Think of...