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Rethinking tourism in Africa

Business Daily

BBC

Business

4.4816 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Tourism in Africa, even before the pandemic, was still not bringing in as many visitor dollars as it might. But, from stargazing trips to plans for a brand-new museum of evolution, we hear from the people changing perceptions around holidays in sub-Saharan Africa. Safari tours aren't going away, but the industry is changing and that's good news for Africa's underperforming tourism sector. Vivienne Nunis hears from Susan Murabana, CEO of The Travelling Telescope under the stars just outside Nairobi, Dr. Muchazondida Mkono, a Zimbabwean academic and lecturer in tourism at the University of Queensland Business School, and from famous Kenyan paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey.

(Image credit: Supoj Buranaprapapong, Getty Images.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on Business Daily with me, Vivienne Nunes, we're looking at efforts to shake up tourism in sub-Saharan Africa.

0:09.0

Famous for its safari parks, the continent has long been a dream destination for animal lovers.

0:15.3

Now, though, efforts are underway to diversify the visitor experience, both on the ground and in the skies.

0:22.6

Some of the guests thought we had stuck a sticker on the telescope because you could see the

0:27.9

rings and it saw 3D and just seeing certain up there.

0:32.1

It's really like floating up in space.

0:34.9

From stargazing to new museums,

0:39.2

African firms are looking to attract a different kind of tourist.

0:41.3

Africa is not just there for the animals, right?

0:44.2

There is beauty, there is joy, there is colour,

0:47.3

there is fashion, there is dance,

0:49.8

there is food, there is everything in between.

0:53.3

So grab your telescope and join us for Business Daily.

0:59.4

Gazing up at the night sky is something many of us do

1:02.6

when we find ourselves away from big cities

1:05.2

and the bright lights and busy flight paths that come with them.

1:09.0

Across the globe, efforts are being made to protect the night from light pollution

1:13.3

and promote areas where darkness remains.

1:16.8

At the same time, there's a trend emerging among tourists, searching for places with uninterrupted

1:22.1

views of the cosmos.

1:23.9

The travelling telescope is a Kenyan company founded by two astronomers who met while watching a solar eclipse and ended up getting married.

1:32.3

The pair decided to share their love of the night sky with others and set up a planetarium in Nairobi.

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