Corporate Council on Africa News Updates

Nigeria: Abuja Airport Runway Now 57.5% Completed – Minister Footprint 2 Africa The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has disclosed that the reconstruction of the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, has reached 57.5 per cent… Read more>> Report ranks Rwanda third in science, technology and innovation capacity in Africa New […]

Kenya Airways launches ‘Air Pass’

PRE-PURCHASED BUT NOT PRE-BOOKED DOES KENYA AIRWAYS’ NEW AIRPASS KNOCK COST OF TRAVEL DOWN (Posted 31st March 2017) Kenya Airways, in collaboration with Optiontown, presents their new product Flight Pass that allows passengers to conveniently pre-purchase flights at a very low cost and book flights later when they want to travel. The more credits one […]

Skyward launches Wilson Mombasa Lamu services

WILSON MOMBASA LAMU BECOMES A REALITY (Posted 31st March 2017) As of today do passengers traveling from Nairobi’s Wilson Airport have more choices to fly to Mombasa and notably Lamu, as do passengers from Mombasa now have a choice to fly on a daily scheduled service using a Bombardier Dash 8-300 aircraft to Lamu. The […]

Lillian Gaitho’s weekend thoughts again focus on travel over Easter

Easter escape: 6 last-minute Easter break road trips for families that won’t break the bank This year, Easter comes with an additional gift for families on school-term break; if you have some days saved up from your annual leave, then you can easily extend the holiday to catch up with Labor Day! Not possible? Then […]

News updates about Brussels Airport

Brussels Airport News – Rebroadcast for readers of ATC News especially those flying with Brussels Airlines to the European capital and beyond … A Smurfing Family Lane at screening Together with the Smurfs, we’ll be giving families leaving on holiday from Brussels Airport a proper send-off this Easter. On 29-30-31 March and 1 April, the […]

A little big taste of Africa

Travel Africa Extra Magazine – Reproduced here for the readers of ATC News Welcome to the March issue of Travel Africa Extra, our monthly compendium of information, stories, interviews and advice for readers of Travel Africa magazine, delivered to you by email at the end of each month. Please feel free to share this mini-mag […]

The Nesbitt Castle is undergoing major upgrades to return in a new shine

The Nesbitt Castle | Bulawayo is closing for major refurbishments Hotel News Hotel News Highlights from The Nesbitt Castle blog this past month. Follow us on our social media platforms for instant updates as they happen! Room & Restaurant Closure for Refurbishment The Nesbitt Castle is closing our rooms and restaurant side of our business […]

Nairobi Now – Updates for next week’s activities

Nairobi Now News Updates for Next Week’s Events An exhibition on FOOD WASTE With artists from IKV Internationaler Künstlerverein e.V., Hawa Artists and the participation of the German Embassy in Nairobi. Opening: March 28, 2017 Venue: National Museum Until: April 28, 2017 Due to global … Nairobi Now News Updates Welcome to this week’s Nairobi […]

Coastal Aviation extends the FAST Class promotion Serengeti – Ruaha

Coastal Aviation Schedule Updates Coastal Aviation promotion Dear Reader of ATC News, following the great interest observed towards our new Pilatus PC12 route between the Serengeti and Ruaha National Park (FAST class) we decided to extend the ongoing through fare promotion for any booking made before 30 June 2017 (valid for travel from 1st of […]

Brussels Airlines adds Mumbai

BRUSSELS TO MUMBAI FLIGHTS FINALLY A REALITY (Posted 31st March 2017) Mumbai, India’s economic powerhouse city, is now connected five times a week with the European capital of Brussels. After Jet Airway over a year ago shifted their European hub to Amsterdam was Brussels not directly connected to India. Brussels Airlines’ flight now changes that, […]

Belgian Travel Agents enjoy Reunion’s hospitality and sights

REUNION MAKES BIG IMPRESSION ON BELGIAN TRAVEL AGENTS (Posted 31st March 2017) Rainbow gathered travel agents from the Belgian market to discover the island of La Reunion with the support of the IRT and its service providers during a just ended tour of the island. Twelve Belgian travel professionals representing their respective travel agencies (Suntour […]

Rwanda now requires insurance from package tourists

MEDICAL EVACUATION INSURANCE NOW A MUST FOR PACKAGE TOURISTS COMING TO RWANDA (Posted 31st March 2017) It was confirmed overnight that following changes in the relevant tourism laws and regulations in Rwanda, safari and tour operators now must include an evacuation insurance package for their clients, the cost of which is of course being passed […]

Air Seychelles in double destination launch

DUESSELDORF COMPLETES NEW DESTINATION DOUBLE FOR AIR SEYCHELLES (Posted 31st March 2017) When the Seychelles government a few years ago decided to sell a 40 percent stake in national airline Air Seychelles to Abu Dhabi’s flag carrier Etihad, were political opportunists on the islands swift to cry sell out and give away. Yet, at the […]

Partner Invitation to World Travel Market Africa

Africa Travel Association partners with World Travel Market Africa REGISTER NOW Registration is open for one of the leading global travel trade events! In 2016, WTM Africa saw almost 5,000 travel professionals network and conduct business. WTM Africa will take place from 19-21 April 2017 at the CTICC in Cape Town, South Africa. Register for […]

Expect a culinary surprise at Sovereign Suites in Limuru

NEW CHEF – NEW MENUS – NEW DINING EXPERIENCE (Posted 30th March 2017) A few days ago I mentioned that a number of articles dedicated to travel across our region will be forthcoming and before I embark on my next escapades across East Africa I now hasten to make good of this promise. https://atcnews.org/2017/03/18/journeys-across-eastern-africa/ My […]

Corporate Council on Africa News Updates

PROJECTS Off-Grid Solar Project, Kenya Bidding for the project is expected to commence in April 2017… Read more>> INFRASTRUCTURE How can Africans trade more with other Africans? African Business Magazine In response, the trend is increasingly towards localisation – a global company leverages its well-recognised brand but adapts it to the local conditions of the […]

UNWTO welcomes ‘Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism Day’

22ND OF MAY DECLARED GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DAY (Posted 30th March 2017) The Convention on Biological Diversity of the United Nations has chosen ‘Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism’ as the theme for the International Day for Biological Diversity. The celebration takes places annually on 22 May. The decision aims at supporting the International Year […]

Gulf Airlines defeat US electronics ban by offering premiums guests laptops on board

QATAR AIRWAYS BRIDGES CONNECTIVITY GAP ON BOARD BY OFFERING TABLETS ON BOARD (Posted 30th March 2017) US carriers are said to be livid over gestures made by the leading Gulf airlines like Qatar Airways to offer their premium guests on board laptops on loan, allowing uninterrupted work by busy executives flying on their aircraft. Qatar […]

Durban now an Air Seychelles destination

DURBAN FLIGHTS LAUNCHED WITH BIG FANFARE (Posted 30th March 2017) Air Seychelles, an Etihad partner airline, has earlier today launched their long awaited flights between Mahe and Durban, the airline’s second destination in South Africa. The twice a week nonstop flights, every Thursday and Saturday, are operated with an Airbus A320, offering 16 business class […]

Uganda’s CAA boss sacked

TIME HAS FINALLY RAN OUT FOR UGANDA’S CAA BOSS (Posted 30th March 2017) ‘He and many others should have been fired the moment they killed Air Uganda. That was a low point in Uganda’s aviation history and marked an abyss in relations between the industry and the regulators‘ commented a regular aviation source from Entebbe […]

Seychelles tourism arrivals on a high growth curve

ARRIVALS CROSS THE 80.000 THRESHOLD BEFORE THE THE END OF Q1 (Posted 30th March 2017) The Seychelles have for the first time crossed the 80.000 arrivals threshold before the end of the first quarter and notably so in a year when Easter, a very travel intensive period, falls in mid April. Arrival numbers as of […]

Rhino poaching on European soil shocks the world

Save the Rhino News Updates March 2017 This month’s shocking incident of a rhino poached at Parc zoologique de Thoiry in France is the first of its kind on European soil. In the early hours of Tuesday 7 March, keepers found the carcass of Vince, a four-year-old white rhinoceros, with its horn removed with a […]

Rwanda’s Akagera National Park in the news …

Akagera National Park News Updates © VYSAKH R NAMBIAR Welcome to the Akagera newsletter for the first quarter 2017. It was a rough end to 2016 in many ways; we lost Max, one of the canine unit dogs, to tsetse-transmitted trypanosomiasis and one the seven lions brought to the park in 2015, Garuka, was found […]

Kafunte News Updates

Kafunta Safaris News Updates from South Luangwa … and exciting news it is from one of Zambia’s best safari destinations … Like Tweet Forward Two months have passed since our last newsletter, and we are now only a few days away from reopening Kafunta River Lodge for the 2017 season! We are really excited and […]

Not all is well in Laikipia

KUKI GALLMAN’S LODGE BURNED DOWN BY CONSERVANCY INVADERS (Posted 29th March 2017) (The Mukutan Retreat – no more) Mukutan Retreat on the Laikipia Conservancy was burned down earlier today according to information received from Kenya. The lodge is owned by renowned artist and conservationists Kuki Gallman and the burning and conservancy invasion is therefore bound […]

The latest Tourism Tattler News

Weekly Trade News Update Thu 23 – Wed 29 March 2017 Editor’s Top Picks: Mantis to Launch St Helena Hotel continue reading   HVS Launches THINC Africa 2017 continue reading SA Tourism CEO Launches Indaba 2017 continue reading SAA Plummets to R4.5 Billion Loss continue reading Saxon Hotel Appoints New S&M Director continue reading Kenya […]

Corporate Council on Africa News Updates

PROJECTS Off-Grid Solar Project, Kenya Bidding for the project is expected to commence in April 2017…Read more>> TOURISM Rwanda’s airline to start flights to London CNBC Africa Rwanda’s airline will start three weekly flights to London’s Gatwick airport on May 26 and it expects to exceed one million passengers on all its routes in the […]

New Chairman announced for Fastjet Board of Directors

RASHID WALLY NAMED CHAIRMAN OF THE FASTJET PLC BOARD (Posted 29th March 2017) Following the recruitment of Nico Bezuidenhout as CEO of pan African low cost carrier Fastjet – he came from South African Airways own LCC Mango after serving twice as interim CEO of SAA – have two other senior figures, formerly from SAA, […]