Live Webinar: Getting Ready for the Connected Bag
An interesting ATW webinar worth watching out for … If you have trouble viewing this email, read the online version. A message from Air Transport World announcing a new webinar Getting Ready for the Connected Bag Register Today for this exclusive Air Transport World Webinar The airline industry has made tremendous strides in baggage handling […]
RhiNEWS April 2015: News from the field & Northern white rhino update
A news update from Save the Rhino International Welcome to April RhiNEWS, bringing you global rhino news and updates from Save the Rhino International. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. APRIL 2015 The plight of the Northern white rhino highlights the very real threats facing the world’s five rhino species. […]
News from the Kingdom of Swaziland
Swaziland will this year make an appearance at the upcoming Seychelles’ Carnival which starts this weekend and runs from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th of April. A large delegation is expected on the island of Mahe for the event, coming all the way from the Kingdom.Meanwhile though has Swaziland made ripples at the just ended […]
No 387 Wildlife Trade News: 20th April
Your daily dose of bad news on a Monday … About poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes … Please note: For newsletter subscription and circulation details see message at the end of this newsletter. in the spotlight today …………………… Vietnam makes massive seizure of rhino horns EXTRACT: HANOI – Vietnamese customs have seized elephant tusks and […]
Hotel investments keep pouring into this East African capital
IS THE FIVE STAR TREND GIVING WAY TO MORE PROFITABLE FOUR AND THREE STAR HOTELS IN NAIROBI? (Posted 20th April 2015) Investors in the hotel industry in Kenya’s capital Nairobi seem to be unperturbed by the present challenges the tourism industry in particular at the coast is experiencing. The business market for hotels in the […]
Work on Kilimanjaro modernization set to start by mid year
KILIMANJARO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WORK TO START BY MID YEAR (Posted 19th April 2015) The airport company operating the Kilimanjaro International Airport which is located some 50 kilometres outside the city of Arusha, has confirmed that work to expand, upgrade and modernize the airport will start by mid-2015. The financing for the contract worth 40 million […]
It is Carnival time in the Seychelles and it does not come any bigger for carnivalistas
CARNIVAL PRINCES, BEAUTY QUEENS AND REAL ROYALS TO GRACE THE SEYCHELLES CARNIVAL (Posted 19th April 2015) Going by the lineup for the fifth ‘Carnaval de Carnivals – The Carnival International de Victoria’ there will be spectacular displays coming up at the various carnival events, the official opening and the main parade juggernaut through the Seychelles’ […]
No 386 Wildlife Trade News: 18th April
The daily dose of bad news about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes from around the world … in the spotlight today …………………… Elephant charities. The good, the bad and the ugly. WHAT ARE NGOs DOING TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF AFRICA’S ELEPHANTS? Over the past three years, NGOs have launched multi-million dollar campaigns to highlight […]
Nairobi and its national park, a story worth telling and reading …
A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE IN THE PARK? OK, A DRIVE MORE LIKE IT! (Posted 19th April 2015) Kenya’s capital Nairobi, more recently in the news over the county government’s Easter Egg surprise for returning city residents, when all major roundabouts were partly blocked, ostensibly to ease traffic by keeping the right turns shut […]
South Africa today …
World opinion is coming down hard and fast on South Africaover the spiraling violence against non citizen Africans and the horrific scenes captured on the global media in live television coverage and with photographs speak volumes and need no further explanation. Both in Uganda and Kenya but also across the East African region opinion is […]
Global Tourism and Travel leaders set ambitious agenda for future growth
The leading global Travel & Tourism private sector and government organisations – the Global Travel Association Coalition (GTAC) – have yesterday launched a commitment for aligned advocacy and action to harness the full potential of the sector to create jobs, drive inclusive growth and foster development. Launched at the World Travel & Tourism Council Global […]
Weekend travel impressions by Lillian Gaitho
Lillian rounded up her week, after announcing earlier that Jovago.com where she works as Head of PR will open an office in Dar es Salaam soon, by telling us about the top hotel pool views in East Africa … considering the bucketing rain outside my tent, I am spending the weekend at the Nairobi Tented […]
Vote for your East African nominees / World Travel Awards 2015
Voting for this year’s Travel Oscars’ ends on the 26th of April andthere is not much time left to pile up the votes for your favourite properties in the Eastern African region. Serena Hotels have yesterday once again sent out their appeal for their guests and associates to cast their votes for them, but of […]
No 385 Wildlife Trade News: 17th April
The daily does of bad news from around the world about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes … Please note: For newsletter subscription and circulation details see message at the end of this newsletter. If you find this newsletter helpful we would welcome feedback from you which will be kept confidential. in the spotlight today …………………… […]
No 384 Wildlife Trade News: 16th April
Your daily dose of bad news from around the world about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes … in the spotlight today …………………… CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA CONCERNING: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. The Secretariat therefore informs Parties that the recommendation to suspend commercial trade in specimens of […]
Dar es Salaam next for Africa’s leading hotel booking platform after Lagos, Dakar and Nairobi
AFRICA’S LEADING HOTEL BOOKING PLATFORM LAUNCHES OFFICE IN DAR ES SALAAM (Posted 17th April 2015) The new age in travel is taking Africa by storm as the growing internet penetration by business and society at large keeps growing in leaps and bounds. e-Transactions, like mobile money use which was pioneered in East Africa, are set […]
Modern technology aids bill fish tagging
KENYA RECORDS FIRST EVER SATELLITE TAGGING OF A STRIPED MARLIN (Posted 17th April 2015) Kenya’s coast, from Malindi over Watamu all the way to the Pemba Channel where the waters are shared with Tanzania is rightly famous for offering some of the world’s best fishing grounds and for having attracted the big names hunting for […]
This African country still got what it takes and then some more
COSMOPOLITAN KENYA – SOMETHING FOR EVERY TASTE (Posted 17th April 2015) Many readers were intrigued to read that only recently was the 110th Kenya Derby run at the Ngong Racecourse, showing a tradition of horseracing in Kenya going back over 100 years and then some. During the racing season is the course a magnet on […]
Dim your light as young birds take flight?
REUNION DIMS THE LIGHT AS THE NEXT GENERATION OF BARAU PETRELS TAKES TO FLIGHT (Posted 17th April 2015) Something unique is going to happen on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion when across the island the lights are dimmed at night, and in part switched off. The endemic but endangered Barau petrel and Black […]
No 384 Wildlife Trade News: 16th April
Your daily dose of bad news from around the world about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes … in the spotlight today …………………… CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA CONCERNING: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. The Secretariat therefore informs Parties that the recommendation to suspend commercial trade in specimens of […]
UNWTO’s forecast 1.5 trillion tourism ‘exports’
UNWTO, the United Nation World Tourism Organization, has just released their latest forecasts for numbers of travellers and the revenues they generate. Africa is sadly lagging way behind the global trends and must no doubt redouble efforts to gain a larger share of global travel streams and the revenues which go along with it. International […]
News news and more news …
Campi ya Kanzi News April 2015 We hope you enjoy receiving news from us. April showers are bringing a new vibrancy to the landscape at Campi ya Kanzi. The Chyulu Hills grow greener every day, and Mount Kilimanjaro is often capped with snow. We are very busy preparing for our grand air safari in May, […]
News from Africa and about Africa
Read the April 2015 ATA Passport to Africa Newsletter View this email in your browser April 2015 Welcome to ATA’s April Newsletter! ATA is delighted to launch our updated version of ATA Passport to Africa, our monthly newsletter to feature the latest member and Africa travel industry news. If you are an ATA member and […]
News from the Creole world …
International publication Kreol Magazine has now launched a new magazine app, available to those using Apple and Android devices all over the globe. The Creole culture magazine has created this intuitive new app – soon also to be available on Kindle Fire – to make it easy to read the great features and stories from […]
No 383 Wildlife Trade News: 14th April
Another daily dose of bad news … Poaching, Wildlife Crimes, Environmental Crimes … It just does not seem to get better … in the spotlight today …………………… Hong Kong government ‘aiding and abetting’ illegal ivory trade, 50 wildlife groups say. (NA comment: Definitely a headline you will never see on the CITES web site or […]
More regional flights boost inter island connectivity among Vanilla Island members
AIR SEYCHELLES UPS MAURITIUS FLIGHTS FROM THREE TO FOUR A WEEK (Posted 15th April 2015) Inter-island air capacity is set to rise from the 28th of this month when Air Seychelles will add a fourth weekly flight between Mauritius and Mahe, reflecting the increase in demand for travel between the two islands. While most of […]
Incentive destination Reunion
REUNION, THE NEW INCENTIVE DESTINATION (Posted 15th April 2015) Annie Claude Miara, CEO of SDT Events and inspite of her young looks a veteran in the industry, earlier this week went on record in Reunion to explain what make the incentive industry tick and why more and more incentive organizers are taking a fresh look […]
Low Cost Airline announces more flights to Zambia and Zimbabwe
FASTJET ADDS FOURTH FLIGHT TO LUSAKA AND HARARE (Posted 15th April 2015) Fastjet, which yesterday formally celebrated the launch of their new route from Kilimanjaro to Entebbe, has announced extra flights from Dar es Salaam to both Lusaka and Harare. A fourth weekly flight has been added, due to growing demand on these routes, the […]
Brussels Airport takes overall prize at the Routes Europe 2015 Marketing Awards
While my blog happily flies with Brussels Airlines, here is some more good news … Brussels Airport named the best in Europe … and ain’t that the truth … Brussels Airport takes overall prize at the Routes Europe 2015 Marketing Awards Last night during the Networking Evening at the historic Castle Fraser in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, […]
No Paramotor flight, no Hyrax sightings and yet a successful visit
THE TALE OF THE HUNT FOR THE HYRAX (Posted 15th April 2015) Spending a night or a few inside the Mabira rainforest inevitably brings one close up to the sounds of the forest, during the day with birdsong, the chatter of the monkeys high up in the giant trees and at times the sudden flight […]
