TRAVELS

Before Jara Beach Resort, there was a beach hut called Lil Zanzibar, and a proposal on the same Lagos beach.

For this Industry Seat, we sat down with Mark and Millie Slade, the couple behind Jara and the new forest retreat Lufasi Lodges, on surviving a pandemic-era launch, the discipline of saying no, and a quieter argument that runs through everything they build: that world-class hospitality already lives in Nigeria..

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When most people hear responsible travel, they think plastic straws and eco-lodges. Kayla Doris thinks that framing is doing more harm than good. The writer behind Kayla Doris is Away makes a sharper case: fast travel, modeled on fashion's reckoning with fast consumption. Both built on extraction. Both promising more than they deliver. Both needing the same kind of reckoning.

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Naledi Khabo is architecting a new African tourism economy by moving beyond outdated, "flattened" narratives. As CEO of the Africa Tourism Association, she treats culture as essential infrastructure for GDP growth.

Her mission is systemic: replacing reactive community feedback with co-architecture, where locals define value before projects launch. By dismantling myths of "risk," she is clearing the path for a modern, innovative continent driven by African ownership and narrative power.