After a pandemic that brought one of the world's most promising industries to its knees, Africa's tourism sector is not merely recovering — it is reimagining itself. From Morocco's medinas to Rwanda's highland gorillas, record numbers of international visitors are arriving, and with them, investment that is reaching communities long left outside the global travel economy. What distinguishes this moment is not the return of old patterns, but the emergence of a more sustainable, technology-enabled, and broadly shared model of growth — one that asks whether prosperity and preservation might, at l