{"id":8371,"date":"2026-08-04T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/ourafrica-travel-announces-2027-dates\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:52:19","slug":"ourafrica-travel-announces-2027-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/ourafrica-travel-announces-2027-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"OurAfrica Travel Announces 2027 Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"OurAfrica<\/a>Cape Town, South Africa, August 4, 2026 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ OurAfrica. Travel is delighted to announce that their next virtual trade show will take place from 22 \u2013 26 February 2027, so please \u201cSave the Dates\u201d now in your tourism calendars and feel free to register your interest in attending as an exhibitor or buyer on their website now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As we enter the second half of 2026, OurAfrica. Travel organisers Storm Napier and Allie Hunt thought it was a timely opportunity to reflect on another successful African trade show season, with Experience Africa by partner ATTA\u00ae closing off a productive 6 months in style in London at the end of June.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As Africa\u2019s premier virtual trade show, OurAfrica. Travel 2026 enjoyed increased exhibitor support, high-value buyer engagement and a show that resulted in well over twenty thousand business connections across the platform. Held from 16\u201321 March 2026, the event brought together 212 exhibitors, 442 buyers and 36 media, generating 23,402 messages, 21,426 connections and 7,861 meetings. The show prides itself on its core values of being affordable, accessible and inclusive for all its participants \u2013 be they far flung destinations or simply businesses with limited time, budgets or manpower to attend the in-person trade shows.<\/p>\n

Over twenty news stories<\/strong> were also shared on the news page. The reputation of OurAfrica. Travel speaks for itself, supported by the participants\u2019 positive feedback.<\/p>\n

Exhibitors represented a wide spread of destinations across Africa and the Indian Ocean, including South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Uganda, Mozambique, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Madagascar, Malawi, Seychelles and the Maldives.<\/p>\n

Buyers joined from key source markets around the globe including the USA, UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, Kenya, Tanzania, Brazil, India, Germany, Spain, Italy and Mexico. A wonderful benefit of being able to accommodate the different time zones seamlessly.<\/p>\n

The 2026 edition also continued to shine a spotlight on community and conservation, with an added level of transparency and credibility via a newly formed partnership with Africa\u2019s Eden. This year\u2019s Community & Conservation<\/strong> finalists included Chipembele Wildlife, Endangered Wildlife Trust, Conservation Travel Foundation in the conservation category as well as Uthando, Surfpop Foundation and Impact Fund for their community impact \u2013 with a special commendation for the Jafunta Foundation in Zimbabwe which does incredible work across both aspects.<\/p>\n

Storm and Allie are delighted to announce the worthy winners of the cash donations on behalf of OurAfrica. Travel to Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust<\/strong>\u00a0in Zambia for their work in conservation and Uthando (Love) South Africa<\/strong> which won the community title. Thank you to everyone who nominated and voted.<\/p>\n

Accommodation prize winners for the most engaged participants throughout the show are currently being contacted by the organisers and will be shared shortly on social media.<\/p>\n

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Cape Town, South Africa, August 4, 2026 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ OurAfrica. Travel is delighted to announce that their next virtual trade show will take place from 22 \u2013 26 February 2027, so please \u201cSave the Dates\u201d now in your tourism calendars and feel free to register your interest in attending as an exhibitor or buyer …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2315,37,14,2316,1966],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-global-travelnews","tag-news","tag-travelindex","tag-travelindex-media-group","tag-untourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}