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A summit dedicated to industrialisation, agriculture and critical minerals does not sound, on its face, like tourism news. Yet the same infrastructure and mobility questions that determine whether a mine's output reaches a port also determine whether a visitor...
Sky Clouds (Pty) Ltd has leased Gaborone’s dormant 80-room UB Hotel, investing over P4m to restore conference capacity. What the revival signals for the city.
Walk the beaches of Luanda's Ilha do Cabo or the coastal roads south toward Benguela and the blue economy is not a policy phrase, it is the boats coming in at dawn, the informal fish markets, the dive operators and lodges depending on marine conservation areas...
A tourist changing money at an airport kiosk, a tour operator invoicing a South African client in rand for a package built around Angolan destinations, an airline settling interline fares across a shared regional booking system — none of these everyday transactions...
An industrial policy conference is not, on its face, a travel story. But the ninth annual SADC Industrialisation Week, which opened on 27 July 2026 at the Durban International Convention Centre in KwaZulu-Natal, is itself a piece of mobility infrastructure in action:...
With Botswana’s budget projecting an economic rebound this year, lifestyle businesses face a clear instruction: sell value, not vanity. Cautious customers reward substance over signal.
The World Bank’s warning that global shocks could deepen is a reminder for tourism operators: health protocols are not a relic of the last crisis but a standing condition of being trusted.
With global trade indicators pointing to resilience, the question for Botswana tourism is how to capture demand early. Stories, guides and podcasts now sell a destination before a single booking is
As Botswana signs energy and mineral exploration deals abroad, the same logic scales down to the lodge: solar can turn one of a remote camp’s largest costs into a fixed, sunlit asset.