Travel in city Lusaka

This is part of Global Sounds, a collection of stories spotlighting the music trends forging connections in 2024.

Indian hotel chain Sarovar Hotels and Resorts managing director Ajay Bakaya has a big hurdle to cross: maintaining the quality that his hotels have historically offered. Sarovar is one of the fastest-growing hotel chains in India. The company has opened seven hotels so far this year and is looking at opening another eight to 12.

Air Botswana is the flag carrier of Botswana operating scheduled flights to domestic destinations such as Maun, Kasane, Francistown and Gaborone as well as regional destinations including; Cape town, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Harare.

Anantara Kafue River Tented Camp to launch in 2025 in Kafue National Park.

The UNWTO frequently surveys tourism experts across continents in order to understand their views on when key tourism markets will recover to 2019 levels. In May 2021, 45% of African tourism experts surveyed projected the continent would recover to 2019 levels by the end of 2023. A similar survey in January 2022 highlighted that only 33% of experts saw recovery occurring in 2023, with 50% anticipating recovery in 2024 or later.