Africa Travel Week is ‘buzzing’

Excitement builds for Africa Travel Week Excitement builds for Africa Travel Week Various sectors of the inbound and outbound travel trade have demonstrated their excitement for the upcoming Africa Travel Week to be held in Cape Town from 19 to 23 April 2017. Three travel industry events all held at the Cape Town International Conference […]

Corporate Council on Africa News Updates

INFRASTRUCTURE Planes, trains, and automobiles: East Africa’s massive infrastructure project begins How We Made It In Africa It is a massive infrastructure project originating from Kenya, consisting of a 32-berth port on the country’s north coast, a railway, an oil pipeline, highways, international airports, and resort cities….Read more>> Can Africa become the next big economic […]

Sheraton Kampala gets new Director of Sales and Marketing

MICHELE MAGRONE MOVES TO THE KAMPALA SHERATON HOTEL (Posted 06th February 2017) The Kampala Sheraton Hotel has just confirmed that Mr. Michele Magrone has joined as new Director of Sales and Marketing, following in the footsteps of Mrs. Jennifer Musiime, who left late last year for family reasons. Michele worked for the past couple of […]

Qatar Airways claims new record for ‘longest flight’

AUCKLAND TO DOHA SERVICE BY QATAR AIRWAYS CLAIMS NEW RECORD (Posted 06th February 2017) Qatar Airways’s flights QR 920/921 between Doha and Auckland / New Zealand will claim new world record for the longest scheduled commercial flight, when the Boeing B777-200LR will return to the airline’s hub airport Hamad International in the morning. The outbound […]

Air Mauritius cancels several flights due to impact of tropical cyclone ‘Carlos’

MAURITIUS BOUND FLIGHTS CANCELLED AS TROPICAL CYCLONE ‘CARLOS‘ PUMMELS THE ISLAND (Posted 06th February 2017) After Mauritius authorities officially announced a Category Two alert as tropical cyclone ‘Carlos‘ approached the island, has national airline Air Mauritius too taken precautions and cancelled several flights scheduled to arrive in Port Louis later today, 06th February. The airline […]