In 2025, Halisi Africa Discoveries took a step beyond designing journeys and into shaping the future of the industry itself, co-founding the Regenerative Tourism Alliance, an umbrella platform bringing together like-minded players committed to rethinking how tourism works for people and place.
The Alliance was created with a clear intention, to move conversations around sustainability into practice. Not as a checklist, but as a shared learning space where operators, community partners, and sector stakeholders can exchange ideas, test models, and build approaches that restore rather than extract.
The official launch took place virtually on World Tourism Day, 27th September 2025, under the leadership of the late Dr. Sonnia Nzilani. Her leadership and advocacy for inclusive, community-driven tourism helped ground the Alliance in a vision that prioritises local voices, cultural integrity, and shared value.
From the outset, the Alliance has focused on aligning tourism with broader social impact. One of the ways this has taken shape is through marking key global moments, not as symbolic gestures, but as opportunities to engage directly with communities.
On International Women's Day 2026, the Alliance, with support from UN Women, worked with Entasopia Primary School to support 100 girls with reusable sanitary towels. The initiative addressed a practical barrier that affects school attendance, while also opening up conversations around dignity, health, and access.
These actions reflect how the Alliance is approaching regenerative tourism, not only through travel experiences, but through consistent engagement with the realities within the communities that tourism touches.
At its core, the Regenerative Tourism Alliance is building a network. One that recognises that no single operator can shift the industry alone, but that collective action, shared learning, and aligned intent can gradually reshape it.
For Halisi Africa Discoveries, co-founding the Alliance is an extension of its work on the ground. It creates space to collaborate, to question existing models, and to contribute to a tourism ecosystem where impact is not incidental, but designed.
As the Alliance grows, the focus remains steady, bringing more partners on board, deepening engagement with communities, and using key global platforms to translate intention into action.
