The African Travel and Tourism Association (ATTA®) has unveiled a new leadership structure as it brings its membership and events operations together under one unified ATTA® brand and not-for-profit organisation. The move will see ATTA® and ATTA® Group Events (AGE) operate as one organisation, bringing the association’s membership community and growing portfolio of trade events together as part of its renewed strategy for supporting and growing tourism across Africa.

Namibian desert homes filled with sand. Japanese islands overtaken by greenery. These may sound like fiction, but are just some of the abandoned places on earth consumed by nature.

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Martin Yan Man-tat first appeared on Canadian television in 1978 as a fresh, enthusiastic 29-year-old chef eager to teach people about Cantonese cooking. He has since become one of the culinary world’s most renowned figures, recognised for his cooking show Yan Can Cook and catchphrase, “If Yan can cook, so can you!” Nearly 50 years on, the celebrity chef – who was born in Guangzhou, moved to Hong Kong as a teenager and later left for Canada and the United States – remains as zealous as ever in...

Designer Azeeza Khan has spent the better part of 15 years building a fashion empire on her own terms, in her own way. For one, Khan is still based in her hometown of Chicago, away from the American fashion epicentre of New York and the Hollywood machine in Los Angeles. “We’re at Kith, Revolve, Shopbop, all those places, so we have reach,” she explains, but she hopes to expand her eponymous label’s physical presence with a secondary office outside Chicago. “LA is one of our top-selling consumer...

Another very long day in Paris began at 10am with a lovely show from Japanese label Sacai and ended more than 10 hours later with Chanel. Those two brands couldn’t be more different, yet both are rooted in real clothes imbued with just the right amount of fantasy. For spring/summer 2027, Chanel’s artistic director Matthieu Blazy turned the Grand Palais into a starry sky with a moon surrounded by flocks of white birds with their wings spread as if about to take flight. Models walked on an...

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An unnerving story has emerged from southeastern Russia involving the death of 28-year-old woman from pneumonia and fears that she may have been exposed to a form of plague at the lab where she worked. But the

Ozempic continues to make headlines in the fashion world and not just because everyone is still on some form of GLP-1 weight loss medication. Ozempic-proof wardrobes are becoming a necessity as women are looking for clothing they can keep wearing even when their dress size is in a continual state of flux. Sizing has always been a thorny issue, which is why more brands have expanded their ranges to be more inclusive. This, however, doesn’t address the Ozempic effect, where women may move between...