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17 December 2020 – Airlink, the independent regional airline, will launch a convenient new non-stop service between Cape Town and Harare from 18 January 2021 – its latest in a series of new and resumed routes across its Southern African network. It will satisfy demand for direct flights between the two cities and follows the […]
Victoria Falls Safari Lodge, The Boma – Dinner & Drum Show, The Boma Café and the Buffalo Bar will reopen on December 10, after being closed for nine months – due to coronavirus pandemic related travel restrictions – following growing demand for the festive season. The Victoria Falls Safari Lodge estate partially re-opened in July, […]
Emirates has added another flight from Dubai to Harare, via Lusaka, taking the total number of flights to three a week. The extra flight will operate on Fridays, using a Boeing 777-300ER, complementing the Saturday and Monday flights. Flight EK714 departs Harare at 12h55 on Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays, then departs Lusaka at 15h30, arriving […]
October 22, 2020—The Government of Zimbabwe and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, today launched an initiative to boost tourism in and around Victoria Falls to help strengthen Zimbabwe’s tourism industry, which has suffered a sharp decline in visitors because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative, the ‘Victoria Falls […]
Zimbabwe Thursday resumed international flights after taking a six month COVID-19 forced hiatus since March. According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ), three airlines resumed international flights, Fastjet; Harare to Johannesburg, Ethiopian Airlines; Addis Ababa to Harare and Emirates; Dubai to Harare. Kenya Airways and RwandAir will both resume tomorrow. In a statement, […]
The African Travel and Tourism Association (ATTA) will work with its tourism partners across the globe to lobby for the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to lift its mandatory 14-day quarantine period for travellers returning from visiting Africa. FCDO is “misguided” in its assessment of Africa’s COVID-19 safety risk and is doing “enormous […]
The Zimbabwean government announced last week that it is resuming domestic and international flights after a six month sabbatical due to the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. The world over, flights had been stopped as global cases of the virus continued to surge. This has had a huge, negative impact on tourism, both domestically and internationally. A […]
With the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic crippling the tourism industry, which is a key funder of conservation, the future of Africa’s iconic wildlife is under threat, but UK-based charity TUSK has stepped in to help. TUSK, whose patron is the Duke of Cambridge Prince William, launched Ride4Rangers, an initiative to raise vital funds […]
Zimbabwe has once again been put on the global tourist map, with Victoria Falls Safari Lodge being named among the Top 5 Africa Resort Hotels in the 2020 World’s Best Awards by prestigious United States magazine Travel + Leisure. Each year hundreds of thousands of Travel + Leisure readers vote in the World’s Best Awards […]
Hospitality giant, Africa Albida Tourism (AAT) has announced the reopening of Victoria Falls Safari Lodge estate tomorrow after a three month hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic which saw all hotels being closed. The hotel will be partially open as the process starts on a gradual and cautious note to monitor and curb the pandemic […]