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The African travel field guide

AFRICA.
BEYOND THE
BROCHURE.

For those who believe you have to go there to truly know it. Familiarisation journeys for the African travel trade.

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A note from the field

First-hand knowledge.
Lasting connections.

Fam Trips to Africa is a guide to familiarisation trips for the travel trade: how travel agents and tour operators get onto Africa fam trips, and how DMCs, tourist boards and reps host them. It covers 12 countries across East and Southern Africa, and fam trips themselves are listed on RepBud for members.

Your guide: RepBud · Guides for the African travel trade.

For DMCs, tourist boards & reps

An invitation to your Africa.

Bring the right people to your extraordinary places. Build a fam trip that creates advocates—and future bookings.

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The guides

The field library.

  1. What is a fam trip?Agents and hostsThe definition, who goes, who hosts, who pays, and how a fam differs from a site inspection, an educational and a hosted buyer programme.
  2. How do travel agents get on Africa fam trips?AgentsEligibility in any market, where fam places come from, what they cost, how to behave on the trip and what hosts expect afterwards.
  3. How do you host a fam trip for travel agents?HostsFor DMCs, tourist boards and reps: objectives, vetting agents, group size, itinerary shape, budget lines, follow-up and measuring bookings.
  4. Fam trip and travel trade terms explainedAgents and hostsDefinitions of fam trip and travel trade terms, from comp and conservancy to STO rate and tourist board.

Destinations

Choose your next expedition.

Twelve country guides, from the forests of East Africa to the dunes, rivers and coastlines of the south.

Explore Africa’s destination guidesSelect a highlighted country to open its guide. The same destinations are listed beside the map.

Highlighted countries have a field guide. Map for orientation; boundaries are illustrative.

Your journey starts here

Find your place in Africa.

Choose a country on the map or browse the guides below.

Green hills and islands around Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda
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Uganda

Uganda for gorillas, forest trails and classic safari. Explore the places, plan the route and know what to ask your host.

Read the Uganda guide

Photo by Random Institute on Unsplash

Wooded hills and lakes in Akagera National Park, Rwanda
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Rwanda

Rwanda for mountain gorillas, rainforest and savannah. Explore the places, plan the route and know what to ask your host.

Read the Rwanda guide

Photo by Andrew Molo on Unsplash

Three giraffes beside an acacia tree in the Masai Mara, Kenya
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Kenya

Seasons, routings through Nairobi, reserve and conservancy fees, the eTA, and what hosts usually cover on a Kenya fam.

Read the Kenya guide

Photo by Julie Wolpers on Unsplash

Wildebeest crossing the Mara River in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
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Tanzania

The northern circuit and the south, seasons and calving, park and Ngorongoro fees, the e-visa, and what hosts usually cover.

Read the Tanzania guide

Photo by Jorge Tung on Unsplash

Green highland valleys on the route towards Abune Yosef, Ethiopia
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Ethiopia

Ethiopia for highland wildlife and extraordinary heritage. Explore the places, plan the route and know what to ask your host.

Read the Ethiopia guide

Photo by Erik Hathaway on Unsplash

An elephant beside a tree in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
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Zambia

Zambia for river country and immersive safari. Explore the places, plan the route and know what to ask your host.

Read the Zambia guide

Photo by Dmitrii Zhodzishskii on Unsplash

Water cascading over Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe for river wilderness and a sense of space. Explore the places, plan the route and know what to ask your host.

Read the Zimbabwe guide

Photo by Tanner Marquis on Unsplash

A small boat on Lake Malawi beneath distant hills
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Malawi

Malawi for lakeshore days and conservation stories. Explore the places, plan the route and know what to ask your host.

Read the Malawi guide

Photo by Omar Hakeem on Unsplash

Palm trees and boats along the beach at Maxixe, Mozambique
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Mozambique

Mozambique for island escapes and wild landscapes. Explore the places, plan the route and know what to ask your host.

Read the Mozambique guide

Photo by Omoniyi David on Unsplash

A sunlit orange dune in the Namib Desert, Namibia
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Namibia

Namibia for desert light and wide-open horizons. Explore the places, plan the route and know what to ask your host.

Read the Namibia guide

Photo by Taylor Wright on Unsplash

Two giraffes among shrubs in Kruger National Park, South Africa
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South Africa

Cape Town, the Winelands and the Greater Kruger or malaria-free reserves, seasons, flights, fees, entry rules and what hosts cover.

Read the South Africa guide

Photo by Tobin Rogers on Unsplash

Sunset reflected in the waters of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
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Botswana

Light-aircraft routings through Maun and Kasane, the Delta's flood season, small camps and group size, fees, entry and what hosts cover.

Read the Botswana guide

Photo by Jose Mizrahi on Unsplash

Upcoming fam trips

The departures desk.

On RepBud. Hosts post their fam trips there, and travel agents sign up free to see them. How it works

Travel agents and advisors

Sign up to see fam trips

Africa fam trips are listed on RepBud, where travel agents and tour operators join free as RepBuddies, see trips open to their market and apply to attend.

Sign up to see fam trips

There may not be any fam trips open at the moment. Relevant fam trips are posted on RepBud as hosts publish them.

DMCs, tourist boards and reps

Post your fam trip

List a fam trip on RepBud with the markets your guests sell from. RepBuddies in those markets are notified once it is approved.

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The group

Around the campfire.

Fam Trips to Africa is also a group on RepBud, where agents and hosts talk fam trips.

The group on RepBud

Join the Fam Trips to Africa group

A group chat on RepBud for travel agents and tour operators who sell Africa, and the reps, DMCs and tourist boards who host fam trips there. Ask questions, hear about fam trips and meet the people behind them.

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Open the group

Sign in, open Fam Trips to Africa and tap Join. Reps, DMCs and tourist boards who host Africa fam trips are welcome too.

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Next step

Connect with the hosts and agents behind Africa fam trips

Fam trips are offered to agents hosts already know. A RepBud profile connects the two sides: reps, DMCs and tourist boards on one, travel agents and tour operators on the other.

Travel agents and advisorsJoin RepBuddies, free

Connect with reps and apply for fam trips listed for your market.

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DMCs, tourist boards and repsList your fam trip

Choose the markets your guests sell from. Economy is free, with no card.

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