Archive for September 2018

The theme of this issue is “The High 5s – Tourism as a Pathway to Industrialization, Integration, Quality of Life, Agriculture, and Powering Up Africa”. The wide range of topics examined in this issue include subjects such as hotel pipeline developments and investments, balancing wildlife and urbanization, intra-Africa travel potentials with the Single African Air…

Niue has been named in the top ten fastest growing tourism destinations for 2017 by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation. Niue came in at number seven with visitor numbers increasing by 25.4 percent for the year. The head of Niue Tourism, Felicity Bollen, puts the increase down to a targeted marketing strategy. But she…

The importance of digital technologies in tourism, providing opportunities for innovation and preparing the sector for the future of work, is at the centre of World Tourism Day 2018, to be celebrated in Budapest, Hungary (27 September 2018). World Tourism Day, celebrated every 27 September around the world, is a unique opportunity to raise awareness…

Discover Namalu Coffee Ltd, unique coffee maker from Papua New Guinea.                       Namalu Coffee Ltd is a high quality coffee maker located in the heart of Goroka Eastern Highlands Province and at the Malahang Industrial Centre (Papua New Guinea) The coffee is made up of parchment…

Centuries of colonization nearly erased the taste of the Pacific. Now, a new generation is reimagining the regional food for a new era. THE KAWAKAWA LEAVES are dark as jade and riddled with holes, the telltale bites of looper moth caterpillars. In another kitchen they might be thought compromised and tossed aside, but to Monique…

Traditionally, only the destinations in North, East and southern Africa illustrated the importance of the tourism sector as a driving force for economic growth. But now, more and more states in West and central Africa are also embracing the tourism sector. The African Union too identifies tourism as one of the avenues through which the…