In today’s travel industry, “luxury” has become a sanitised, generic, and stubbornly bland descriptor. It is arguably the most overused term in the business—often serving as a mask for a lack of true discernment.
As 2025 draws to a close, we look back on a pivotal year in top-end luxury travel.
As the global calendar takes shape, our team is dedicated to securing privileged access to the world’s most exciting destinations and experiences. For the upscale traveller, the focus is on journeys that move beyond the ordinary.
As the 2026 global calendar takes shape, the Nota Bene team is dedicated to securing privileged access to the world’s most exciting destinations, openings, and occasions. If you are planning a year of boundary-pushing travel, these five standouts are essential.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites with stunning natural landscapes, rich cultural heritage, and opportunities for adventurous exploration.
Botswana offers one of the most private and spectacular safari experiences in Africa. Few places on Earth possess such contiguous pristine wilderness, untrodden by tourists and so uniquely preserved.
Arguably South Africa’s most celebrated artist, William Kentridge’s 40-year career has produced a body of work nothing short of spectacular.
Despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global art market, a young generation of African artists defied the gloom by breaking new auction sales records and raising eye-brows among the international art community.
Staying at a lodge in the Kruger National Park makes for a perfect three-night safari experience.
We believe Rwanda deserves a place on your shortlist of destinations to explore in 2020, offering a stimulating mix of adventure, luxury, history and, best of all, varied and verdant landscapes. Things are looking up for Rwanda, whose President, Paul Kagame, is making great strides in uniting his people and turning the fortunes of his …
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As we flew above the Kalahari, its parched, desert landscape soon gave way to pods of green foliage resembling islets, some dotted with stately palms.
October means that fall is here, the season when our thoughts focus on travel to far-flung continents and new adventures.
The great migration has finally arrived in Kenya. This exhilarating annual spectacle, when thousands of wildebeest cross the Mara river, is now underway.
The Museum of Contemporary African Art, otherwise known as Zeitz MOCAA, has finally arrived in Cape Town. It is, by far, the most exciting part of the otherwise underwhelming V&A Waterfront with its shopping malls, average restaurants, lacklustre hotels and waterways reminiscent of London’s Docklands.
Located in the verdant highlands of Laikipia, amongst rolling hills clothed in wild olive and cedar trees and, on a clear day, views of Mount Kenya in the distance…
