Zanzibar hospitality news and analysis
Coverage of Zanzibar's beach and heritage hotel market: record arrivals data, the mandatory inbound insurance and levies, new resort supply, airline capacity into Zanzibar and competition with rival Indian Ocean destinations.
40 briefs, Big Reads and guides · latest update 2026-09-27 · every figure traced to a named, dated source.
Most substantial coverage
- The Mainland Just Overtook Zanzibar on Yield.Midday Pulse
- Zanzibar's Record July Widened the Gap It Should Have Closed.Morning Brief
- Zanzibar was promised a port today.Midday Pulse
- Kenya's security optics take another knock; Zanzibar's branded-luxury supply race accelerates.Midday Pulse
- Ethiopian Airlines has filed to more than double its Addis–Kilimanjaro–Zanzibar service from 30 November.Morning Brief
Every Zanzibar item, newest first
- Tanzania's US$44 Visitor Insurance Starts Thursday 1 October, and the Arrival Airport Decides WHO Sells It.Evening Wrap
- 79.5% of Kenya's 6,190 Pipeline Rooms Are Already Under Construction, and the 2027 Trade Is Being Sold in Paris Now.Evening Wrap
- Your Power Bill Fell This Month.Evening Wrap
- Uganda was declared Ebola-free on 25 August.Sunday Foresight
- The US entry ban on Uganda is now printed law with a comment box attached.Evening Wrap
- Paris closed tonight.Evening Wrap
- WHO Is Provisioning 2,071 More Ebola Beds.Morning Brief
- Ethiopian Airlines has filed to more than double its Addis–Kilimanjaro–Zanzibar service from 30 November.Morning Brief
- The Mainland Just Overtook Zanzibar on Yield.Midday Pulse
- Google searches now end with zero clicks 68% of the time.Evening Wrap
- Tanzania Is Now Power-long.Evening Wrap
- Four stories this week.Sunday Foresight
- MPs Move Against the KTB Super-merger — and the Ministry Reaches for the Levy.Evening Wrap
- DRC Ebola Passes 5,000 Cases — WHO Emergency Committee Reconvenes 18 Aug.Midday Pulse
- Uganda's Hotel Brands Are Building Through a LEVEL-4 Trough.Evening Wrap
- The Airlift You're Celebrating Is the Least Profitable in the World.Morning Brief
- Zanzibar was promised a port today.Midday Pulse
- The DRC outbreak became the deadliest in that country's history today.Evening Wrap
- Zanzibar's Record July Widened the Gap It Should Have Closed.Morning Brief
- The Vaccine Line Is No Longer Supportable — and the Release Number Rose.Evening Wrap
- The Theme: Your Pace Report Only Sees the Channel That's Shrinking.Sunday Foresight
- Eastleigh and Kibera Are Now "do Not Travel".Midday Pulse
- The airlift East Africa is banking its 2026 arrivals on is being flown by carriers earning 40 US cents a passenger.Morning Brief
- East Africa keeps announcing record arrivals.Morning Brief
- Kenya just set an air-traffic record — and it was domestic travellers who set it, not the inbound long-haul market operators spend all their energy chasing.Midday Pulse
- THE BIG READ — The cranes are a promise.Evening Wrap
- US: Kenya L2, Tanzania L3, Zanzibar L3, Uganda L4, Rwanda L3.Midday Pulse
- US: Kenya L2, Tanzania L3, Zanzibar L3, Uganda L4, Rwanda L3.Evening Wrap
- The Ebola number that changed overnight — and why there are now two dates to watch, not one.Morning Brief
- Here's the week that decides three of our standing calls, plus what's still true and moving underneath.Morning Brief
- Two things tonight: a correction, and a supply signal you can plan against.Evening Wrap
- Since this morning — so we went back through the open forecasts, and found one.Midday Pulse
- Tonight we do the more useful thing — audit the story everyone thinks they're reading.Evening Wrap
- Sustainability compliance in East Africa — plastics, carbon and certification, without the hypeGuide
- Congo's outbreak just became a number your guests will Google — and it isn't in your country.Evening Wrap
- Two upstream signals overnight, both about where East Africa's next room-nights come from: Rwanda quietly put a named boss over the city it's building around its new airport, and Zanzibar has fixed th.Morning Brief
- Ownership, not occupancy, is the story this weekend — a Swiss buyer is moving on the region's largest camp group while Zanzibar's demand curve quietly flattens.Morning Brief
- Airlift into the region keeps expanding faster than most rate strategies assume — Emirates now lands in Nairobi three times a day.Morning Brief
- Kenya's security optics take another knock; Zanzibar's branded-luxury supply race accelerates.Midday Pulse
- Nairobi is about to absorb 1,500 new branded rooms this year — and the smartest operators are already repositioning.Daily brief