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BON expands footprint throughout Namibia

BON Hotels will take over hotels in Rundu and Walvis Bay, adding to its existing footprint in Swakopmund. Entering the fourth year of BON Hotel...

SAA announces codeshare with TAAG

SAA has announced an extended codeshare agreement with TAAG Angola Airlines. As part of the extended agreement, SAA will codeshare with TAAG on their direct...

Ethiopian launches debit card

Ethiopian Airlines and Hibret Bank have launched a co-branded debit card. The new debit card entitles Ethiopian ShebaMiles members to five bonus miles for every 100-birr spending made with the co-branded card.

Ethiopian Airlines opens Addis hotel

Ethiopian Airlines has opened the five-star Ethiopian Skylight Hotel, located five minutes from Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport. The Skylight Hotel has 373 rooms and...

City Lodge Hotels is open for business

City Lodge Hotel Group is starting to open up its hotels in a phased response to business traveller demand as South Africa moves to...

Hilton expands HGI footprint in Africa

Hilton Garden Inn is celebrating strong growth in Africa with four open properties and an additional 14 in the pipeline just three years after...

Radisson Reports African Growth

The Radisson Hotel Group has signed 11 new hotels in Africa in the first nine months of 2019. This brings the group’s African portfolio to...

BCD a finalist in the Standard Bank Top Women Awards

BCD Travel has been nominated in the Top Gender Empowered Organisation: Tourism category in the 16th annual Standard Bank Top Women Awards. The Standard Bank...

Comair business rescue plan adopted

Comair passed another significant waypoint en route to returning to the skies when the vast majority of creditors and shareholders voted to adopt the...

CFS takes delivery of new PC-12

Comair Flight Services has taken delivery of a brand new Pilatus PC-12 NG on behalf of one of its clients and ferried it to its new home in Johannesburg.The ferry flight was a total of 23.2 hours taking the aircraft (with its new owner on board) from the

FCBT launches SME travel competition

Flight Centre Business Travel has launched the ‘Corporate Travel Grant Competition’, offering small to medium-size enterprises the opportunity to win R150,000 in travel credits to...

IHG Launches Business Edge

InterContinental Hotels Group has introduced IHG Business Edge, a programme designed to enhance the corporate travel experience for small and mid-size enterprises.