When conversations about Nigeria’s travel trade surface in industry forums, the instinct is almost always to frame the challenge as one of technology. More GDS terminals. Better booking tools. NDC
Last week in Munyonyo, Uganda’s civil aviation authority hosted a three-day continental workshop on competition regulations in African air transport. The Director General of the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority, Fred
The Senior Vice President of B2B Travel at Mastercard on agentic commerce, the OTA settlement problem, why virtual cards are reshaping airline distribution, and what financial inclusion in travel actually
For African online travel agencies, the payment problem has never really been about technology. It has been about rails. Specifically, the absence of reliable ones. A customer in Nairobi wants
Sabre has spent the better part of a year telling the travel industry that agentic AI is its future. On 6 May, it stopped talking and started showing. The launch
A co-branded card deal is less about plastic and more about who owns the customer relationship in African travel Ethiopian Airlines and Visa have expanded their co-branded card partnership as
Africa is not a single NDC story. It is a continent of 54 countries, dozens of national carriers, thousands of travel agencies, and distribution infrastructure that ranges from sophisticated to
The Managing Director for Merchant Services Africa at Network International on why payments are becoming a key competitive factor in airline retailing, and which players are already paying the price
The conversation has shifted. At the 2026 Air Retailing Partner Circle in Frankfurt, nobody was debating whether NDC had a future. The question on the table was how fast the
Verteil Technologies has announced that Nile Air’s NDC content is now live on its platform, giving travel agents connected to Verteil direct access to the Egyptian carrier’s fares, ancillaries, and
