About the Pulse, the data behind it, and how to use it.
A free daily market-intelligence brief for hotel, lodge and resort owners, tour operators and DMCs across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zanzibar and Rwanda. Three editions a day (Morning Brief, Midday Pulse, Evening Wrap) plus a Sunday Foresight edition, each item closing with a concrete action rather than just a headline.
Yes. There's no paywall and no signup wall — every edition, guide and dataset on the site is readable without an account. It's distributed free on Telegram, WhatsApp and LinkedIn, and the archive is public.
A fixed basket of 40 properties across six East African markets, tracked weekly at a constant booking convention (2-night stay, 30-day lead time, 2 adults, USD) so that movement in the index reflects a genuine change in rate rather than a change in what was sampled. Full detail on the Methodology page.
Through three separate mechanisms, not one: insurance cover can be voided under a "do not travel" designation, corporate duty-of-care policy can block travel automatically once a level crosses a threshold, and leisure sentiment softens. The three don't move together, and knowing which one is actually in play determines whether the right response is a rebooking offer, a factual note to trade partners, or nothing at all. We publish a live travel advisory status board comparing US and UK government positions, since the two frequently diverge.
Confirmed means verified against a primary or official source — a regulator's own notice, a gazette, an airline's own schedule filing. Reported means credible press carried it but we haven't independently confirmed it against a primary source yet. Early signal means an upstream indicator suggests something is coming before it's been reported anywhere, and it's explicitly labelled as inference rather than fact until it resolves. See Methodology for the full recency and verification standard.
Every forward-looking call we make is logged publicly with a falsifiable resolution test and a resolve-by date, before the outcome is known — then scored when the evidence lands, including the calls that were wrong or partially wrong. Anyone can sound confident about the future; a public, checkable record is the part that can actually be verified. See the live track record.
Free on Telegram (the full edition, three times a day), WhatsApp (a shorter daily skim), or LinkedIn (a longer analytical piece most evenings). Every edition is also archived on the website as it publishes.
Yes, free, with attribution — no fee and no exclusivity required. Full terms, an RSS feed for automatic syndication, and a ready attribution line are on the syndication page.
EA Hospitality Pulse is editorially independent. Every claim is attributed to a named source and graded by confidence; every forecast is logged publicly with a falsifiable test; corrections are published, not quietly edited. See the Methodology page for exactly how sourcing and verification work.
Every dataset states when it was last updated, and figures that fall outside our re-confirmation window are explicitly flagged rather than left looking current. The Rules & Fees tracker marks unverified entries for re-checking against the official source before you quote a client; Rate Index weeks with too few observations are marked unconfident rather than hidden. See Methodology for the specifics.