While for North Africa, Visiting Friends & Relatives travellers account for 46%, and Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 33%. For the Middle East it is just 18%, suggesting that journey here is especially for Leisure,” says Gordon Clark, VP of Business Development in Travel Retail at ForwardKeys. However, the latest journey information exhibits that Africa and the Middle East are also proving to be rather more resilient. More than ninety new nations have been added in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, including in style destinations corresponding to China, Japan, India, Israel, Jordan, Egypt and South Africa.