World Tourism in Geo-Political Chains?

By Selwyn Roup, GST Contributor Location, location, location… and never before has Southern Africa stood astride the Indo-Atlantic straits of East to West and North to South as in the past nine months. The good news is that in 2025 South Africa welcomed 10.5 million tourists, topping pre-Covid numbers. The ebb and flow of power […]

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Luxury tourism is a risky strategy for African economies – new study of Botswana, Mauritius, Rwanda

by Pritish Behuria – Reader in Politics, Governance and Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. This article was published in The Conversation on 28 October 2025 How successful is luxury tourism in Africa? What happens if it fails to produce higher tourism revenues: can it be reversed? And does it depend on what kind […]

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