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About The Sixth African Region Initiatives (SARI)
Unite, Empower, Explore and Elevate Africa
The Sixth African Region Initiatives (SARI) is a visionary Pan-African social enterprise tourism platform dedicated to showcasing Africa’s tourism potential through connection, collaboration, empowerment, and innovation. Headquartered in Ghana, and inspired by the global African diaspora, SARI leads a new movement in sustainable tourism, entrepreneurship, and diaspora engagement, using these as catalysts for economic transformation across the continent.
Through quarterly conferences, tour operations, development initiatives, and enterprise programs, SARI unites Africa and its global diaspora to spotlight investment opportunities, cultural exchange, and inclusive growth in sustainable tourism.
SARI initiatives like the SARI Enterprise Empowerment Program (SEEP), ZayVoyage by SARI, and the Africa Tourism Renaissance Conference provides practical, scalable solutions to some of the continent’s most pressing challenges in tourism, including youth unemployment, underutilized creative potential, and limited access to business opportunities.
Our goal is to redefine Africa’s tourism narrative by driving collaboration, promoting sustainable tourism, and empowering the next generation.
SARI serves as both a policy and program platform, focusing on:
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Enterprise empowerment through training, mentorship, and access to markets;
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Tourism development as a catalyst for cultural and economic transformation.
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Research Programs in Tourism and its adjacent.
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Tour Operation through itineraries curation for Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
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Women & Youth innovation and leadership programs that position young Africans as global contributors.
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Diaspora partnerships that promote investment, knowledge transfer, and continental collaboration.
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MICE & Events (Corporate Event Management for external organizations across Africa)
Our Mission
Sixth African Region Initiatives uses partnerships, strategic collaborations between Africa and the diaspora to promote African tourism, investments and cultural heritage preservation.
We empower young professionals, students and upcoming stakeholders in the tourism and hospitality ecosystem to access knowledge spaces, skill exchange, visibility and opportunities. We promote sustainable and luxury tourism while advocating ecotourism, wellness tourism and responsible travel. We orchestrate high impact tourism and hospitality related conferences and events that showcase Africa potential, attract investors and foster global partnerships.
The Sixth African Region Initiatives (SARI) envisions a social enterprise entity, fostering intersectionality between local entities and the diaspora to promote entrepreneurship, rural-community initiatives,
socio- cultural and economic collaborations. Promoting sustainable and responsible tourism practices, we envision being an agency/ medium for making Africa a forefront globally in tourism, attracting different stakeholders and consumers worldwide, While we amplify tourism industry opportunities, serving as a repository for knowledge sharing and skill harnessing, for youth and women.
We position to further discourse and dialogues, showcasing and simulating experiences of the African
culture encompassing.
Our Vision
Value Proposition
SARI is a catalytic force that creates powerful bridges, connecting young Africans to global opportunities fusing tourism, culture, innovation, and Africa diaspora synergy to reimagine identity, ignite livelihoods, and co-create Africa’s future from within.
Promoting African Integration Through Tourism & Investment.
Establish platforms and agencies that connect African countries with the diaspora.
Encourage intra- African collaborations in travel, trade and economic development, we partner with like minded agencies and organizations.
Work with African public and private sector tourism stakeholders to promote cross-border tourism policies and amplify culture across Africa.
Goals & Objectives
Why Choose SARI?
At SARI, we go beyond hosting conferences; we build transformative platforms for action and impact. Our programs unite visionaries, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and innovators to shape the future of Africa’s tourism, trade, and enterprise ecosystems.
Through dynamic conferences, insightful initiatives, expert-led dialogues, and strategic networking opportunities, SARI empowers individuals and organizations to discover possibilities, forge partnerships, and drive sustainable growth in tourism-adjacent sectors across the continent.
