luxury tourism Stories

From budget trips to lavish getaways: How comfort shapes modern travel in Kenya
Margaret Wanjiru  |  Dec 03, 2025

Kenyan travel is shifting from budget trips to curated luxury, with travelers planning and saving for premium stays, fine dining and short high-end ge...

Egypt launches investigation after ancient artefact disappears from sealed tomb
XINHUA  |  Oct 06, 2025

The incident is particularly puzzling as the Khentika tomb, discovered in the 1950s and used as a storage facility for antiquities, had been completel...

Egypt’s Mt Sinai luxury tourism project sparks global outcry over heritage and Bedouin displacement
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 08, 2025

The state-backed initiative, part of the Great Transfiguration Project launched in 2021, envisions hotels, eco-lodges, shopping centres, a cable car t...

Tanzania pushing out Maasai to attract rich tourists
DW News  |  Jul 07, 2024

Tanzania's government is expanding its nature preserves, but in doing so, it is displacing Maasai herders from their ancestral lands. The plan is to a...

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