Wilderness HoldingsA key driver of the travel industry at the moment is that punters face a diminishing choice of destinations where they feel they will have a sporting chance of returning home in one piece.Former crowd pleasers such as Egypt and Tunisia have been hammered by the perception of terrorist risk; the Zika virus has crossed South America off many a list; and the end of the Ebola outbreak has made Southern and Eastern Africa look like a possibility to even the most geographically challenged of tourists.This is excellent news for Wilderness, which has beefed up its regional presence with the acquisition of 51% of the Governors’ Camp group of lodges in Kenya and Rwanda. It is developing a luxury lodge in Rwanda for those discerning gorilla-fanciers who may previously have been put off by lodges that could have been cobbled together in about 1950 by a rather unambitious parks board.Gorillas are au courant after the antics of one Kumbuka, formerly incarcerated at London Zoo, ...
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