Zanzibari tour operators complain about pollution
RESORTS ACCUSED OF LITTERING AND POLLUTION The Zanzibar Association of Tour Operators has during the recently concluded annual general meeting made a range of allegations towards a number of resorts and private residences along the island’s beaches. The asked government to take corrective action against open disposal or rubbish, littering and pollution of the ocean’s […]
Fly 540 Tanzania news update
LOW FARES BY FLY540 RATTLE TANZANIAN COMPETITION The recent introduction of flights between Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s Indian Ocean port city, and Mwanza, the Tanzanian Lake Victoria municipality, has hit the market with a ‘bang’ as the fares charged by Fly540 are reportedly as much as 50 percent lower than the ones demanded for by for […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region, First edition February 2011
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Twitter: @whthome Blog: www.wolfganghthome.wordpress.com First edition February 2011 US ADMIRAL ADMITS THAT PIRACY EQUATES TO TERRORISM US Vice Admiral Mark Fox was quoted last week in an AFP news services release that ‘only counter terrorism […]
Breaking News – Cairo transit – too hot to handle?
CAIRO TRANSIT – TOO HOT TO HANDLE? As information filtered into Uganda about international airlines cancelling their scheduled flights to Cairo and other Egyptian ‘hot spots’ while charter airlines were busy flying passengers home from the Red Sea resorts and other tourist centres in Egypt, travel agents here in Uganda – and reportedly also […]
