The Africa’s Eden Travel Show – Africa Edition is the region’s dedicated intra-Africa trade platform. It brings Africa’s Eden member products together with travel buyers domiciled anywhere on the African continent for pre-matched appointments, practical learning and deliberate relationship building.
The Africa Edition exists because the African travel trade deserves a show of its own. African-domiciled buyers reach consumers across Africa, and they are also an important conduit for inbound travel from our global source markets – much of the business that arrives in this region from overseas is contracted, packaged and serviced by trade based on the continent. They are key suppliers to Southern African tourism, and this show puts them first, in a room built exclusively around them.
The scale is intentional. This is not a hall of thousands; it is a curated group of buyers and Africa’s Eden member exhibitors, small enough that people meet properly, and long enough together that conversations continue after the last appointment. Business in this region is done between people who know one another, and the Africa Edition is designed around that reality.
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Africa Edition Maun, February 2027 |
Global Edition Windhoek, November 2027 |
Connect Southern Africa Johannesburg, July 2027 |
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Who exhibits |
Africa’s Eden members only |
Africa’s Eden members only |
Africa’s Eden and SATSA
members |
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Who buys |
Buyers from companies
domiciled anywhere in Africa |
Buyers from companies
domiciled outside Africa |
Buyers from companies
domiciled outside Africa |
If your buying business is registered in Africa, the Africa Edition is your show.
Buyers and exhibitors are matched ahead of the show through a diary system, so every appointment is with someone who has a reason to meet you. Appointment books are filled ahead of the show, and where spaces remain we will do our best, as organisers, to fill them.
The evenings – and the breaks, meals and shared experiences around the meetings – are as much a part of the programme as the diary. Time is built in deliberately, in a setting that lets people talk properly, because the partnerships that come out of this show are made in those hours, not in twenty-minute slots.
Pre-fam tours run in the four days immediately before the show and take place right across the Africa’s Eden region – not only in Botswana. Each itinerary begins in its own starting destination and all conclude in Maun, in time for registration.
All fam tours on this programme are pre-fams: they run before the show, and there is no post-show fam programme. Instead, we are working with Africa’s Eden members across the region to offer optional add-on nights and activities after the show – bookable directly with the supplier and at the buyer’s own expense.
Fam tour selection is open to registered buyers of the show only, and places can be reserved once registration and payment have been completed.
Morning: presentations (buyers and exhibitors) · Afternoon: pre-matched meetings · Evening networking event.
Venue: Thamalakane River Lodge, Maun
Exhibiting at the Africa Edition is open only to Africa’s Eden members – businesses with offices in one or more of the eight Africa’s Eden countries. If you are not yet a member, join Africa’s Eden and exhibit.
Early-bird exhibitor registration closes 1 December 2026.
Registration is open to buyers from companies domiciled anywhere in Africa. Places are limited and applications are reviewed.
