Africa

Since 21 October, Air Algérie has been offering a new route to N'Djamena in Chad, with a stopover in Douala. The carrier offers two frequencies per week. The Chadian authorities have granted the carrier "fifth freedom rights". This allows it to carry passengers from N'Djamena...

The official inauguration of Air Côte d'Ivoire's Abidjan-Paris flight took place on 15 October. The following day, a ceremony was organised in Paris for the return flight, a celebration under the banner of "Ivorian elegance", and to mark the occasion the airline is offering - until 15 November - the possibility of travelling with 3 pieces of...

Could this be linked to the shared organisation of the 2030 Football World Cup? Or simply the advent of a top-tier business destination, even on the MICE map? Be that as it may, Morocco is in the sights of major business travel players, and particularly airlines. On the sidelines…

For the past 15 days, the island of Madagascar has been shaken by a youth revolt. Since the weekend, this movement has been supported by part of the army and the national gendarmerie. The particularly unstable situation has led to the introduction of a curfew, particularly in the capital, Antananarivo. Faced with uncertainty about the future...

The debut of a new collection. The Onomo Group, one of the leading players in the pan-African hotel industry, has chosen Casablanca to launch its Onomo Collection range of premium boutique hotels. A year after the launch of the lifestyle hotel Onomo Allure, the opening of the hotel Le Square opens a new page in the development of this group...

British Airways is expanding its Europe and North Africa network from Gatwick airport for the winter season. Its subsidiary BA Euroflyer will be inaugurating regular services to Rabat, the capital of Morocco, as well as to Graz, an Austrian city renowned for its culture, congresses and economic dynamism. Graz With Graz, the...

Air Côte d'Ivoire is preparing to write a new and very important page in the history of the airline created in May 2012. The Paris-Abidjan flight finally looks set to take off. On 6 August, Air Côte d'Ivoire unveiled its new Airbus A330-900 Neo, confirming its short-term ambitions on the Abidjan-Paris route...

With 2.5 million arrivals in 2024, France is the main European and world source market for Morocco. This represents a market share of 27.5 % of total international arrivals in 2024. The figure explains Royal Air Maroc's decision to reinstate four routes suspended in 2017 and...

A first that will be followed by others. Since the end of June, the Ascott group has had a Citadines apartment hotel in Istanbul, in the Maslak district. Offering 147 units ranging from studios to four-bedroom flats, with a restaurant and meeting room, the establishment adds a new stopover to the list of...

Month after month, Ethiopian Airlines confirms its domination of air transport in Africa. The airline, which is a member of the Star Alliance, is the only one in sub-Saharan Africa to offer a global network with some 160 domestic and international destinations. Among the new destinations served by the African giant, Ethiopian inaugurated a new route on 1 January....

Bill Murray will soon be able to take his jet-lagged actor spleen for a spin once again. The flagship host of the film Lost in Translation, the Park Hyatt Tokyo is back in business at the end of the year, celebrating its 30th anniversary by offering travellers a redesigned setting after more than a year's work. With new restaurant concepts, but with the same elegance as before...

Just bad luck? Senegal does not seem to be succeeding in securing the future of its national airlines. Back in 2009, the joint venture between Royal Air Maroc and Senegal came to an abrupt end with the bankruptcy of Air Sénégal International. The airline lasted just under 9 years. A replacement...

With almost 150 hotels and a presence in 20 countries, Marriott already occupies a pre-eminent position among hotel groups in Africa, particularly since its takeover of Protea Hotels in the middle of the last decade. With its hundred or so establishments at the time, most of them in southern Africa, this South African group gave Marriott a...

The hotel boom in Diamniadio, Senegal, is set to continue. With the opening of the new Blaise Diagne international airport and the TER (regional express train) link connecting the new town to Dakar and the Senegalese hub, Diamniadio is boosting its capacity to receive travellers and at the same time establishing itself as the new hub of the Senegalese economy. It is in this context that...

  (Ali Tounsi- Photo: ACI Africa) Ali Tounsi has been Secretary General of Airport Council International (ACI) for Africa since 2009. ACI represents 64 members in 51 countries, managing 250 airports. With 25 years' experience in air transport, Ali Tounsi paints an uncompromising picture of the...

The Accor group will soon be adding a new brand in Egypt. The lifestyle brand 25Hours, part of the lifestyle hotel joint venture Ennismore, will make its debut in Cairo in a few years' time, within a new business complex in the immediate vicinity of the Mall of Egypt. Developed by Dubai-based specialist Majid Al Futtaim, the...

The Hyatt group is adding a new collection brand to its portfolio. Completing the luxurious Unbound Collection, JdV by Hyatt in the lifestyle segment and Destination by Hyatt in the group's 'classic' offering, Unscripted by Hyatt fills a gap in the niche of upmarket hotels with limited services. Intended, as the...

The aircraft officially landed at London Gatwick for the first time on 18 May. The aircraft, operated by Uganda Airlines, Uganda's national airline, inaugurated a new era with this new direct flight to Europe from Entebbe International Airport. Until now, only three European carriers linked Entebbe: Brussels Airlines from Brussels, KLM from Amsterdam...

Radisson is reaffirming its leading role in hotel development in Africa. With 8 new hotels inaugurated last year, providing 1,540 new rooms, the group is just ahead of Marriott - 1,524 rooms for 11 establishments - and Accor - 7 hotels for 1,354 rooms - in terms of the number of hotels to be opened by 2024, according to an analysis by...

The opening of the luxurious Park Hyatt London River Thames last autumn marked the start of a new phase of expansion for the American group in the UK. Currently operating 17 hotels under 9 separate brands, Hyatt expects to grow its portfolio in the UK by 30 % between 2025 and 2026. In particular, two new hotels are expected to open in...