Dar es Salaam is the commercial capital of Tanzania, the second biggest city in East Africa and has a vibrant outbound
travel market both for leisure travel and business.
The focus of this TravelExpo will be to promote domestic tourism as well as inter-regional tourism to African countries as well as overseas countries.
Dar es Salaam is served by many regional & international airlines including SAA, Air Tanzania, Airlink, Turkish Airlines, Qatar, Emirates, Fly Dubai, Uganda Airlines, Kenya Airways, Rwandair, KLM, Ethiopian Airlines, Egypt Air, Oman Air with other airlines looking at the potential to fly into DAR.
The DAR expatriate & diplomatic communities represent a major market for leisure and business travel.
We expect 125 – 150 DAR-based inbound tour operators, travel agents, NGO’s and corporates to attend.
123 travel trade attended the Spotlight 2025 TravelExpo representing 71 different travel agencies and tour operators including many from Arusha, Moshi & Zanzibar etc.
Kampala is the commercial capital of Uganda and the third biggest city in East Africa has a vibrant outbound travel market both for leisure travel and business travel.
The Kenyan Coast, Zanzibar and the Seychelles are very popular destinations for residents while DAR and Nairobi are key business travel destinations from Uganda.
The focus of this TravelExpo will be to promote inter-regional travel as well as domestic tourism and
overseas travel.
Uganda is served by many regional & international airlines including Qatar, Emirates, Kenya Airways, Aerolink Uganda, Brussels Airlines and Air Tanzania. Uganda Airlines flies direct to Johannesburg, Nairobi, Mombasa, Kilimanjaro, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Harare and
Lusaka.
The Ugandan expatriate & diplomatic communities represent a major market for leisure and business travel.
We expect 125 – 150 travel agents, tour operators, NGO’s and corporates to attend. 139 Uganda travel agents and DMC’s attended Spotlight Kampala in 2025 representing 83 different companies.
Nairobi is always our busiest travel trade expo – 388 travel trade representing 256 different travel agencies and DMC’s attended the Spotlight TravelExpo in February 2026
Reasons to exhibit at Spotlight Nairobi
- Gain direct access to KENYA’s active travel agents and tour operators.
- Have face-to-face meetings with decision-makers who are ready to contract and book
- Focused networking in a professional, efficient format
- Strong visibility within a growing outbound and regional travel market
- Kenyan travel trade are eager to expand their product offerings to Southern Africa destinations and beyond.
