Safaris are changing for the better. Here’s what you need to know
After three difficult years, tour outfitters are creating new offers to appeal to changed traveller tastes and mindsets
27 February 2023 - 20:40
If you’re eyeing a luxury safari in Africa in 2023 and 2024, expect to find a changing landscape on the ground in Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Botswana. When high-spending foreigners vanished in 2020, safari lodges were left struggling to fund wildlife conservation and host community projects. They were given plenty of time to rethink the kind of tourism Africa needs and how visitors can better support their environmental and civic goals...
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