Leisure tourism generated the majority of revenue, bringing in about $65 million. Rwanda's renowned gorilla trekking tours made up 71.4 percent of the total.

Rwanda’s booming $640 million tourism industry is threatened by its backing of M23 rebels in neighboring DR Congo, experts told Semafor, as Kigali comes under growing international pressure over its ...

International visitors spent approximately $698 million on Rwanda travel. Rwanda’s tourism sector experienced significant growth last year, contributing positively to national economy through both ...

KIGALI (AFP) – Rwanda, which has staged a remarkable recovery in the years since the 1994 genocide, has opened visitors' eyes to its past by putting its genocide memorials on the tourist circuit, ...

Branding as the Land of a Thousand Hills, Rwanda has been chosen the next host of the Commonwealth Heads of State Meeting the forthcoming two years. Honoured to host the next Commonwealth Heads of ...

Kwita Izina is one of the world’s significant celebrations of nature where Rwanda’s newly born gorillas are given names. This year’s event has finally been held at Kinigi grounds on the foothills of ...

For Africans in Africa, the year 1994 will always be a memorable one. It was the year Apartheid ended in South Africa. In Nigeria, it was the year Moshood Abiola, the winner of what has been adjudged ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Emese Maczko is a travel writer covering sustainable travel. Rwanda has a lot to celebrate this year. A century ago, in 1925, ...

How successful is luxury tourism in Africa? What happens if it fails to produce higher tourism revenues: can it be reversed? And does it depend on what kind of government is in place? Pritish Behuria ...

Leicester City's Danny Simpson in action with Arsenal's Sead Kolasinac. REUTERS/Darren Staples KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda has signed a sponsorship and tourism promotion deal with the English soccer ...

Launched in 2009 to accelerate national economic development, this agency – the Rwandan government’s Swiss Army knife for attracting foreign investors and tourists from the four corners of the globe – ...

Rwanda is becoming one of Africa’s leading business tourism destinations. A World Bank Group advisory project helped set up a convention bureau, which improved the government’s capacity to identify ...