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Accor CEO Advises Young Hotel Entrepreneurs on Scaling Up: WTTC Summit Video

If you want to enter the hospitality sector, start small and get financial support. But be aware that scaling up beyond a certain threshold can be tremendously hard. That was the advice from the head of one of the world's largest hotel groups, Accor chairman and group CEO Sébastien Bazin. "If it's your dream or…

Sean O'Neill | 2 months ago

Tour Operators

The Funding Grind for Black Travel Startup Founders in Africa

Black founders appear to be raising more money with each round, but it’s not nearly enough when it comes to travel tech startups looking to diversify the tourism offering across the African continent.

Selene Brophy | 9 months ago

Overtourism

Tourist Destinations Face Dilemma Switching From Quantity to ‘Quality’ Visitor Strategies

In the pursuit of higher quality tourists, destinations need to make sure they maintain a diversity of tourists and local businesses.

Dawit Habtemariam | 1 year ago

News Blog

Global Airlines Group Appoints First-Ever Female Chair

The International Air Transport Association's board of governors has appointed RwandAir CEO Yvonne Manzi Makolo to serve as its chair, making her the first woman ever to lead the global airline agency. Makolo, who has led RwandAir since 2018, will serve a one-year term as IATA's chair from June 2023, succeeding Mehmet Tevfik Nane, the…

Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago

Tourism

Tourism Leaders Need to Expect the Unexpected in the Next Decade

From addressing consumer fears to sustainability trends, the business of promoting tourism just got a lot harder.

Matthew Parsons, Skift | 3 years ago

Business Travel

Rwanda Is Making a Push for the Right Number of High-Spending Visitors

Rwanda is setting itself up as Africa's new big luxury tourism destination. And while mountain gorillas are the country's main attraction, new luxury lodges will help open up other regions of this small, yet highly diverse country.

Laura Powell, Skift | 6 years ago

Media and PR

The Trends That Are Driving 2014’s ‘Top Travel Destinations’ Lists

Are anniversaries and events over-stressed on these lists? It’s refreshing not to see Brazil, in its World Cup, an automatic inclusion of all lists – even if it’s an understandable entry. But would anyone plan a trip to Cape Town just because it’s the World Design Capital?

Robert Reid, Skift | 10 years ago

SkiftX

Rwanda’s tourism on the rise as East Africans travel more

Rwanda's numbers -- like the expansion of FastJet -- are more evidence to the growing importance of intra-Africa tourism.

Saul Butera, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Hotels

Eco-tourism blossoms out of conflict in Rwanda

Two decades after the devastating genocide, ecotourism is thriving in Rwanda. It not only provides locals with sustainable employment, but its revenues are used to protect the land and animals.

Skift | 11 years ago