An extensive renovation of Baines Lodge in Botswana’s UNESCO-listed Okavango Delta is now complete, with the A&K Sanctuary property reopening its doors to guests.

The expansion of the Sabi Sabi Collection is imminent, with the opening of The Claremont Hotel in Cape Town on 1 October to be followed by the June 2026 launch of Sandringham Private Game Reserve.

With overtourism a term now more commonly used in the sphere of wildlife tourism, luxury safari brand Sabi Sabi Collection is charting a different path – one where “empathy” is the new luxury.

A&K Sanctuary’s new Kenyan safari lodge, Kitirua Plains Lodge, is now taking reservations from 1 June 2026 and beyond, as excitement builds around the opening of the “architecturally adventurous” property.

Elewana Collection, an operator of lodges and safari camps across Kenya and Tanzania, has unveiled significant renovations and refreshed culinary concepts at two of its Kenyan properties: Elsa’s Kopje Meru and Elephant Pepper Camp in the Maasai Mara.

Sustainable, conservation-based luxury tourism operator, andBeyond, has officially opened the doors to its newest retreat in Kenya – andBeyond Suyian Lodge.

A&K Sanctuary has unveiled a first look at its recently renovated Gorilla Forest Lodge. Located within Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the redesigned Gorilla Forest Lodge, an A&K Sanctuary, is the only luxury option inside the park gates. With that, the lodge provides “unparalleled” gorilla trekking access.

Two new retreats are set to open at Tasmania’s Pumphouse Point at Lake St Clair in late July in the first phase of investment that aims to raise the property’s boutique luxury offering.

andBeyond announced it has completed the renovation of its Family Villa at andBeyond Ngala Safari Lodge, situated in the 14,700-hectare, wildlife-rich Ngala Private Game Reserve, adjoining South Africa’s Kruger National Park.

Great Plains Conservation, a conservation organisation that operates luxury safari camps in Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, advises that Mpala Jena will soon open Private Villas on the white sand edges of Zimbabwe’s Zambezi River and in the Zambezi National Park.

Wilderness has confirmed its next East African property, Wilderness Mara, will open in the Maasai Mara in June 2026, a transformation of Little Governors’ Camp.