The largest global travel trade show, Africa’s Travel Indaba is set to kickoff from the 8th to the 10th of May in the City of Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa. As the clock ticks for one of South Africa’s biggest tourism gathering, tourism businesses from 21 African countries and 12 African tourism authorities prepare … Read more
Australia’s under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion (US$42 billion) and as an ecosystem and economic driver is “too big to fail”, a study said Monday. The World Heritage-listed reef is the largest living structure on Earth and its economic and social value was calculated for the first time in the Deloitte … Read more
The US housing market, a key economic driver, is exceedingly tight, with supply struggling to meet demand as the sector recovers a decade after the housing crisis, analysts say. But persistent and pent-up demand among would-be homeowners could spur builders to boost construction, helping to ease pressure on the market for new homes. Inventory of … Read more
Transport Minister, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, says the ongoing aggressive infrastructural projects being witnessed at the ports affirm government’s quest to brand the country as the trade and transport hub of the sub-region. The development works, according to the minister, are efforts at building an integrated intermodal system of transport to push up the gains from … Read more