It is Kenya versus Tanzania against South Africa at World Travel Awards 2024 Grand Finale in November

After the African winners were named in the recently announced World Travel Awards, it is now left for one final and the topmost stage of the WTA, the voting results to determine which is the leading Safari Destination in the entire world.

The Grand Final Gala Ceremony to announce the global winners is getting staged at the Savoy Palace at Funchal, in Madeira Islands on Sunday, the 24^th of November 2024.

For this coveted global pinnacle award Tanzania is the defending champion having won the World Travel Awards (WTA) Leading Safari Destination in the year 2023.

Tanzania’s closest rival in the top awards also happens to be the country’s closest neighbour, Kenya.

Kenya has been winning the World’s Leading Safari Destination for nine years, eight of them being in a row, from 2015 to 2022 when it lost the title to its neighbour, Tanzania, South of the Border.

Kenya also won the top place in the global awards in 2013.

Essentially Tanzania will be fighting against Kenya and South Africa in the leading destination slot for 2024.

South Africa, which usually produces the highest number of entries in the World Travel Awards (WTA), managed to win the top Leading Safari Destination title only once in the year 2014.

For the World’s Leading Destinations in 2024, Tanzania is competing against 17 other country candidates including, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Dubai, Greece, India, Indonesia, Jamaica and Kenya.

Other nominees in the WTA World Leading Destination top crown this year are the Maldives, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, the United States of America and Vietnam.

With nearly 300 nominees in the Global awards listing, with Asia, Europe and Americas topping most global categories. Africa managed to produce only five winning entries in 2023.

That includes Tanzania, which was crowned the global best destination as well as two properties in the country; Thanda which was declared World Leading Exclusive Island and Singita Sasakwa, of Serengeti, which won the global Best Safari Lodge in 2023.