Category: Leisure & Tourism

Sustainable tourism is a green growth opportunity for Southern and Eastern Africa. To safeguard nature as a resource for this sector, governments need to ensure that low-income communities are included in the conservation of wildlife and landscapes essential to the tourism product. To do this,[Read more]

Blended Finance is one of the complementary tools that IFC uses to create markets and bring about development impact. At IFC, Blended Finance refers to a financing package comprised of concessional funding provided by development partners and commercial funding provided by IFC and co-investors. Blended[Read more]

African countries can compete with other tourist-rich regions of the world if they can effectively plan for and integrate tourism into their economies.

Over the decades, tourism has experienced continued growth and deepening ‎diversification to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world. ‎Modern tourism is closely linked to development and encompasses a growing number ‎of new destinations.

The London Stock Exchange Group, in partnership with Africa Development Bank Group, CDC Group and PwC, have revealed their list of Africa’s most inspiring small and medium-sized enterprises. Very interesting! Please follow this link to find the place where you can download the full document.

Investors targeting Africa are looking east, as depressed commodity prices and slowing growth in China put the brakes on a two-decade growth surge in the world’s poorest continent.

Ubuntu Impact Investments is an impact investment company, on leisure & tourism industry, focused on emerging markets and with an innovative and sustainable investment model.