The award-winning documentary film, Blood Lions™, sheds light on the sad truth that between 6,000 to 8,000 lions are held in captivity in South Africa, for cruel and unethical canned-lion trophy hunting. Before captive adult lions become targets for unethical trophy hunters, while they are cubs, they are offered to tourists to pet or, when they…
Despite security challenges in the country, with frequent terror attacks on restaurants and hotels, Somalia is in the process of creating a master plan to revive the country’s tourism industry, according to the Minister of Information, Culture & Tourism Abdirahman Omar Osman. During a recent visit to Madrid, Spain, he met with the Secretary General of…
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a British think tank, estimates that every year 40,000 people attempt to climb Kilimanjaro, bringing with them tons of waste and other environmental threats, including water contamination and soil erosion…. The environmental challenges are significant but the initiatives implemented by the Tanzania National Parks Authority seem to be paying off. Read…
Marnie Delaney-Parker has joined the Radisson Blu Hotel Waterfront, Cape Town, as Director of Sales and Marketing. Previously with the Cape Grace and Sun International, Marnie has more than 20 years’ experience in the tourism and hospitality industry. Read More
Wilderness Safaris is delighted to commence the rebuild of its flagship camps, situated in the world-renowned Mombo Concession in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. The proposed opening date for both Mombo and Little Mombo Camps is end February 2018. “We are thrilled to have begun the exciting process of rebuilding both Mombo and Little Mombo camps…
Twenty years ago, Volcanoes Safaris was the first company to set up simple camps around the gorilla parks. Today, we are the leading luxury lodge company in Rwanda and Uganda and run four luxury lodges: (Kyambura Gorge Lodge, Bwindi Lodge, Mount Gahinga Lodge, Virunga Lodge) and specialize in great ape safaris to the mountain gorillas and chimpanzees in Uganda and Rwanda.…
June marks the re-opening of not one, but two andBeyond luxury safari camps: the intimate, six-suite andBeyond Phinda Rock Lodge, overlooking Leopard Rock in South Africa and the rustic, yet elegant nine-tent andBeyond Nxabega Okavango Tented Camp in Botswana’s wildlife-rich grasslands.Read Report