Africa

Mixed bag for May arrivals

Tourist arrivals for May 2017 showed a gradual increase from major key markets, with France showing particularly strong growth consistent with the positive performance throughout the year so far.Total…

Botswana to host conservation summit

Botswana is to host a major conservation summit to redouble efforts to protect the KAZA (Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area) elephants and to devise collaborative solutions for problems t…

Vilakazi Street goes high tech

Vilakazi Street in Soweto, Gauteng recently had 25 CCTV cameras installed.Herman Mashaba, Executive Mayor for the City of Johannesburg marked the occasion on July 19 when the cameras officially went o…

Boreholes reopened in Botswana

Water for Elephants Trust (WET) has reopened boreholes for elephants and other wildlife in north-east of Botswana.Alexa Tross, Co-ordinator, told Tourism Update in an interview that a serious water cr…