The Aya’s are back in the headlines and not for a good reason

HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY STAKEHOLDERS POKE FUN AT PROMOTERS OF THE SO CALLED ‘KAMPALA HILTON HOTEL’ (Posted 24th March 2015) The Aya brothers, notorious for promising in 2006 to finish their hotel at a rate of one floor a week ahead of the 2007 Commonwealth Summit and repeatedly afterwards uttering empty promises that the hotel would be […]

Carlson Rezidor could make an entry into Kampala at the expense of Hilton

IS THE NEVER FINISHED KAMPALA HILTON SET TO BECOME A RADISSON BLU? (Posted 21st January 2017) Information has emerged that the hotel on Kampala’s Nakasero Hill, long – for the past 10 years – said to become the Kampala Hilton, is now being taken over by management of the Carlson Rezidor Group, very likely under […]

Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region, First edition December 2010

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 December 2010   RECOMMENDED ‘MUST READ’ REGIONAL MEDIA CONNECTIONS For those readers with an interest in learning more about the going on’s in Kenya and Uganda, the current […]

Serengeti tourism: Big plans, Big impacts

  (Posted 19th July 2023)   Dear ATCNews Readers, Dear Serengeti Supporters,   Humans are threatening the Serengeti ecosystem. Settlements, infrastructure, and livestock squeeze inward. And from within, the travel industry and tourists add their own pressures. It will be a challenge to hold onto the model of low impact nature tourism that has served […]

#AviAssist’s latest initiatives on International Fire Fighters Day

  (Posted 03rd May 2023)     Only one day to go … 04th of May …   For once, we’ll be broadcasting on Thursday lunchtime instead of our usual Wednesday lunchtime broadcast. This Thursday May 04th, the world will be celebrating International Firefighters Day. In our special episode of the Focus Sessions, we celebrate […]

#EastAfricanCommunity expands to West Africa as Congo DR joins the economic bloc

(Posted 29th March 2022) Earlier today did Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announce the joining of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the East African Community, widening the bloc’s membership to now seven and expanding the geographical reach from the shores of the Indian Ocean to the South Atlantic Ocean. The announcement came at the end […]

Wannabe hotel in Kampala again under the spotlight

PEARL OF AFRICA HOTEL IN KAMPALA ALLEGED TO HAVE BROKEN LABOUR LAWS (Posted 05th September 2018) In a precursor to yet another change of name and / or management have the notorious Hamid brothers yet again stepped into a legal minefield, after allegedly ordering all of the hotel’s staff to sign new temporary contracts, before […]

ST. Ange addresses the World Islamic Economic Forum Advisory Board

ST. ANGE KEEPS THE MOMENTUM GOING FOR THE UNWTO TOP JOB (Posted 13th May 2017) During the auspicious occasion of the International Advisory Board of World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF IAP) meeting held at the Eden Bleu Hotel in Seychelles yesterday, which was co-hosted by the FORSEAA (Forum of Small Medium Economic AFRICA ASEAN), Mr. […]

FetAfrik Festival opens as the Seychelles receives another speedboat for the coastguard

SEYCHELLES CONTINUES TO BOOST ANTI PIRACY CAPABILITIES (Posted 26th May 2014) With the FetAfrik Festival now underway in the Seychelles, celebrating the Africa Day and everything to do with the archipelago’s culture and history tying the islands to Africa, has the Seychelles coastguard taken delivery of another speedboat to boost ocean security. The Seychelles maritime […]

Another new opening date announced for the so called Kampala Hilton

KAMPALA HILTON MORE EMPTY PROMISES OR FOR REAL THIS TIME Officials of the AYA Group have yesterday announced that the hotel, due for completion by October 2007 when the Commonwealth Summit was held in Kampala, would now finally open its doors in March 2013. Full mouthed statements, often bordering the grotesque if not outright incompetent, […]

South Sudan news – Khartoum’s dirty tricks campaign exposed

KHARTOUMS DIRTY TRICK CAMPAIGN EXPOSED The rise of commodity prices in South Sudan, while partly influenced by the economic situation around the world and more immediately in the wider region, has to an extent been worsened by reported economic strangulation by the regime in Khartoum, the Souths former slave masters. They have been making the […]

Eastern Africa and Indian Ocean report Second Edition May 2010

News from ‘Uganda – Gifted by Nature’, the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Second edition May 2010   Uganda News GOOD SAFARI GUIDE 2010 WINNERS ANNOUNCED – AND IN MEMORIAM PRIMROSE HAVELOCK STOBBS The Good Safari Guide (www.thegoodsafariguide.com) last weekend held its annual award ceremony in Durban / […]