Africa Las Vegas Las Vegas has welcomed the reopening of the US’s borders to fully vaccinated international travellers. L a s Ve g a s w e l c o m e d 5 . 7 m international visitors in 2019, resulting in US$4.8bn in direct economic impact. Prior to the pandemic, Las Vegas welcomed non-stop ights from 31 cities in 12 different countries. As international travel returns, Las Vegas welcomes back many of the city’s major conventions: IMEX America, 911 November; the DEMA Show, 16-19 November; and CES, 5-8 January.
Europe The new Covid variant, dubbed Omicron and originally detected in South Africa, poses a "high to very high" risk to Europe, the EU health agency has warned. Apart from South Africa, Omicron has been detected in Israel in a person coming from Malawi as well as in Botswana, Hong Kong and EU member Belgium. Nations are looking to ban ights to slow the spread of Omicron variant.
Cape Town based Vuka Group, the new brand name for Clarion Events Africa following a MBO, has announced the signing of two collaborative deals with Smarter Mobility Africa and Kinetic Events.Vuka Group CEO David Ashdown said the deals were part of a collaborative approach to assist the industry fully recover from the global pandemic. Smarter Mobility Africa launched its rst event in 2019 with the South African National Depar tment of Transpor t and Gauteng Provincial Departments for Roads and Transport as key strategic government partners.
