Travel tech: Airlines lose their way in AI search

Big travel companies have built powerful booking sites, but smaller operators are proving easier for AI...

Qantas jet breaks 24-hour flight barrier

An aircraft built for the world’s longest passenger routes has remained airborne for more than a...

SA travel swap
goes global

One of South Africa's more unusual travel exports does not involve an airline or a booking...

Travel tech: Airports brace for the billions

With passenger numbers set to double, the aviation industry is turning to AI and biometrics, writes...

Tom Hiddleston unearths Pompeii’s final hours 

A new series, ‘Pompeii: Out of Time’, travels back to a volcanic disaster in AD 79...

SA tourism needs
wider map

While Cape Town and the Kruger Park see a travel boom, areas like the Northern Drakensberg...

Travel tech: SARS revisits apps – and paper

A new high-tech travel declaration for anyone flying in and out of South Africa has proven...

World-first tourism LLM puts Xi’an history to work

A travel model trained on centuries of Chinese culture plans holidays, creates historical portraits and helps...

Radisson turns to
AI for pricing

The hotel group's system feature automatically detects and matches lower third-party hotel rates in real time.

Travel tech: Confessions of a power-mad traveller

The great in-flight charger crackdown has come in for landing. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK reads the fine print.

‘Hidden Gems’ crowns SA’s top travel

A BBC series following South African travel influencers reaches its finale today, as it names the...

SA must build travel destinations

The future belongs to countries that understand tourism is about creating places where people choose to...

3D-printed whale tail becomes Garden Route landmark

With Plettenberg Bay renowned for whale sightings, the structure is expected to attract travellers for a...

Africa sees highest baggage mishandling

Despite the mishandling rate falling 23% globally in 2025, SITA finds baggage disruptions still cost the...

Tuesday Travel: Don’t be THAT traveller

In the first of a regular column on the technology of travel, ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK offers advice...

African countries join aviation carbon compact

The Alliance aims to raise awareness and help scale the supply of high‑quality emissions units for...

SA-backed tech helps bind Gaudí’s masterpiece

The central towers of the legendary Gaudi-designed Sagrada Familia in Barcelona have been completed with the...

SA programme changes tourism impact awareness

A new initiative is helping South African tourism properties measure, understand, and reduce their carbon footprints.

BYD D1: The passenger review, via Mexico City

Departing from a stay in Mexico after the opening game of World Cup 2026. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK...

Upgrade travel toolkit to unlock creativity

Photography tours offer the perfect environment to sharpen skills, experiment with composition, and learn from professionals,...