oneworld alliance product for events market just got even better
News from the oneworld airline alliance newsdesk oneworld News Major upgrades to oneworld events unveiled Tuesday, 14 October 2014 oneworld®, the world’s most awarded global airline alliance, today unveiled a series of significant upgrades to oneworld events, its one-stop, easy-to-use travel service for the conventions, conferences, exhibitions and special events markets. Key improvements include: Removal […]
Kenya Airways – challenges and opportunities
SHARPLY REDUCED WEST AFRICA TRAFFIC WILL IMPACT ON KENYA AIRWAYS’ REVENUES (Posted 15th October 2014) Kenya Airways’ incoming CEO Mbuvi Ngunze has addressed the airline’s concerns over the impact of flight suspensions to destinations in West Africa, where an Ebola epidemic has since the original outbreak in Guinea now cost almost 5.000 lives spread over […]
Reviving the hospitality industry at the Kenya Coast
MOMBASA HOTEL SHOWAIMED TO PUT COAST ON THE MAP AGAIN (Posted 15th October 2014) ‘Getting back on Track’ is the theme of the inaugural Mombasa Hotel Show, which is due to take place in a month’ time at Wildwaters, Nyali, Mombasa. The county government of Mombasa has offered their patronage for the event, which will […]
Tourism must recover to safeguard Kenya’s economic future
TOURISM’ POOR PERFORMANCE DRAGS GROWTH IN KENYA DOWN BY 1.4 PERCENT (Posted 14th October 2014) Not long after reporting tourism’s first half performance last night did a source from Nairobi send additional data, which were equally released slightly late by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. The impact of tourism’s lower than anticipated contribution to […]
Precision Air adds value for passengers through access to Africa’s largest hotel booking site
JOVAGO SIGNS DEAL WITH TANZANIA’S PRECISION AIR (Posted 14th October 2014) Africa’s largest hospitality booking platform, Kenya based JOVAGO.com, has announced that they have signed an extensive deal with Tanzania’s Precision Air. Under the agreement will passengers of Precision Air be able to access Jovago’s full range of available hotels, for instance over 1.000 in […]
Alibaba and eight others remove banned wildlife products, including ivory, from their trading platforms
GOOD NEWS FROM CHINA AS KEY E-TRADING PLATFORMS EMBRACE CONSERVATION (Posted 14th October 2014) Nine of China’s best known internet trading companies, including the recently gone public Alibaba, have in a dramatic turn of events committed themselves to the total removal of items banned under the global CITES Convention, which includes blood ivory carvings, rhino […]
Kenya’s first half arrival data of 2014 now available
KENYA’S HALF YEAR TILL JUNE ARRIVAL DATA CONFIRM DOWNWARD TREND (Posted 14th October 2014) The Kenya Tourism Board yesterday released the data for the months of January 2014 to June 2014 and for those with their fingers on the pulse of the industry there were few surprises as the figures confirmed what the industry already […]
A safari back in time to the battlefields of WW I in Kenya
BATTLEFIELD TOURISM COMES TO KENYA’S TAITA TAVETA COUNTY (Posted 13th October 2014) When the first article about the Battlefields of East Africa was published here, it was 98 years and counting, followed by another feature when it was 99 years and counting and ahead of the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War, […]
AFRAA’s 46th AGA – four weeks and counting
The African Airline Association will this year hold the annual general assembly in Algiers, the capital of Algeria and national carrier Air Algerie is the host airline.Preparations are in high gear and those who have not yet made up their mind are encouraged to do so soon and book, flights and hotels included, to avoid […]
A conference at a lake side? Naivasha resorts say ‘YES WE CAN’ and ‘YES YOU SHOULD’
LAKE NAIVASHA – AN EMERGING CONFERENCE HUB (Posted 13th October 2014) Of the many hosted buyers who attended the Magical Kenya Travel Expo last week in Nairobi, most knew that Kenya’s capital was also the country’s primary conferencing location, offering, besides the Kenyatta International Convention Centre a range of other meeting facilities, from the size […]
Why I Love Maasai Mara
Same say #WhyILoveKenya but Aleema puts her own spin onthings when she shares with us why #ILoveMaasaiMara … Happy reading … WHY I LOVE MAASAI MARA The Mara’s mysteries are continuously unfolding to realise the kind of African dream we all dream of; watching a roaring lion, capturing a hunting cheetah, spotting the caracal cat […]
No 235 Wildlife Trade News 13th October 2014
Nature Alert’s latest news about poaching, wildlife crime and more, from Africa and the rest of the world … in the spotlight today …………………… Trader in wildlife trafficking falls After years in hiding, a businesswoman wanted for illegally trading marine species in the Philippines has been arrested by authorities. The trader was identified as the […]
Acacia Hotels, a new name and a new game as Kenya’s hospitality sector keeps growing
NEW KENYAN HOTEL BRAND IN THE MAKING (Posted 13th October 2014) ‘Acacia’ is the name which the owners of the Simba Corporation in Nairobi have chosen as their brand under which the company will over the space of the next two years build and open at least three mid prized hotels in Nairobi, Naivasha and […]
Seychelles Tourism promotes holidays to the islands in Germany
ETHIOPIAN JOINS HANDS WITH SEYCHELLES TOURISM TO PROMOTE NEW FLIGHTS IN GERMANY (Posted 13th October 2014) Ethiopian Airlines which recently returned to the Seychelles islands with three flights a week, joined hands with the Seychelles Tourism Board to promote their new destination in three cities across Germany. While Frankfurt kicked off the series will the […]
Quo vadis Lamu tourism?
LAMU’S CULTURAL FESTIVAL – SET TO GO OR NOT? (Posted 12th October 2014) The Lamu Cultural Festival, the arguably biggest annual event this ancient town stages, seems to be a festival in suspense at the moment, not certain how it will take place as the curfew slapped indiscriminately on the entire Lamu county by Kenya’s […]
Getting to know Kwale- PLEASE USE AND DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
Getting to know Kwale ??? But yes, of course,it is the county where the world famous Diani Beach is located … and the Shimba Hills National Park … and … and … and … So when my friend Chris Modigell asked to help distribute it, there was no question if but just when it would […]
No 234 Wildlife Trade News 11th October 2014
More gory details of the destruction left by poaching andillegal wildlife trade … time to act … in the spotlight today …………………… Chinese chamber of commerce at heart of wildlife trafficking route (Cambodia) http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2014/chinese-chamber-of-commerce-at-heart-of-wildlife-trafficking-route/ No 234 Wildlife Trade News 11th October 2014 Blood ivory on Sri Lanka’s hands extract: Sri Lanka has been urged to […]
No 233 Wildlife Trade News 10th October 2014
And a few hard hitting truths about illegal wildlife trade andwhat CITES is doing about it, or rather what CITES is NOT doing about it … This will from now on be a regular feature here, every time I get a news update from them in the spotlight today …………………… China “main destination” for illegally […]
Think Pink, ACT NOW
Valid words from MH, Tanzania’s fashion guru … This Breast cancer awareness aims raise the public’s "brand awareness" for breast cancer, its detection, its treatment, and the need for a reliable, permanent cure. Increased awareness has increased the number of women receiving mammograms, the number of breast cancers detected, and the number of women receiving […]
Vote for Us as the “World Leading Hotel Brand”
Vote for us … and not just Serena which has made this public appeal but for properties across Eastern Africa, to be sure we are and remain on the global map of having the best of the best in our region. Having any problems seeing this newsletter? View this email in your browser Serena Hotels […]
If Kenya can still impress me it surely can impress any visitor
STAYING AT AN AWARD WINNING HOTEL DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE – REFLECTIONS ON ANOTHER VISIT TO NAIROBI (Posted 11th October 2014) Questions like ‘But will you be safe’ or ‘Are you not scared to go there’ continue to amaze me and normally prompt a response on social media, both open Timeline and DM like ‘Really? […]
Interpol takes the fight against poaching to East Africa
INTERPOL SENDS TEAM TO EAST AFRICA TO TACKLE WILDLIFE CRIMES (Posted 11th October 2014) When the coin finally dropped on the Western countries, that poaching had substituted ocean terrorism, aka piracy, off the East African coast as a main source for funding for extremist groups like Al Shabab, did a scramble begin to tackle this […]
LYNNE LEAKEY
Lynne Leakey – her Kenyan journey has ended …Impressions by Rebecca Chandler, with thanks for the permission to reproduce it on my blog. I love African elephant ears when they flap. I love waking up to elephant rumbles outside my tent. I love curious elephant babies peeking out from under mom. I love that elephants […]
MKTE 2014 sets new attendance records
MAGICAL KENYA TRAVEL EXPO ENDS ON HIGH NOTE (Posted 11th October 2014) Participants from East Africa in the just ended Magical Kenya Travel Expo, namely delegations from Uganda, Rwanda and representatives from South Sudan, were invited by the East African Tourism Platform, the regional tourism trade apex body, to a meeting at the Sarova Stanley […]
Come November 29th it is all about birds in Uganda, those of the feathered kind
NATURE UGANDA ANNOUNCES DATE FOR THE NEXT ‘BIG BIRDING DAY’ (Posted 10th October 2014) Uganda will once again showcase her rich birdlife to Ugandan, regional and international participants in the 2014 Big Birding Day. The various activities this year are taking place between 27th and 29th of November, the Saturday being the main day to […]
Confidence grows among Seychelles tourism circles to reach new arrival records for 2014
SEYCHELLES ANNUAL ARRIVAL STATISTICS NOW ALMOST AT PAR WITH 2013 (Posted 10th October 2014) After a challenging first half of 2014, when arrival figures showed a softening trend with key markets in Europe underperforming, has hope now returned into the hallways of the tourism board and the tourism ministry that, come 31st of December, another […]
IIPT October Newsletter
News update from eTN partner International Institute for Peace Through Tourism October 2014 UNWTO Secretary General, Dr. Taleb Rifai to be Keynote Speaker at IIPT World Symposium Dr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary General of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) will be a keynote speaker at the groundbreaking IIPT World Symposium: Cultivating Sustainable and Peaceful Communities […]
Health Me Up!, African Rental Housing Conference, Oktoberfest 2014 & Horse Racing: The Spanish Cup & The Jim Kidman Bowl
Kenya is buzzing again with activities and places to gowhere things happen … find out all about East Africa’s most vibrant city, Nairobi, and what you as a visitor, or as a local can do over the next week, courtesy as always of KenyaBuzz e-Weekly Having trouble viewing this email? Click here October 10th – […]
Eco Tourism Kenya’s award gala night turns out to be the highlight of MKTE2014
AND THE ECO WARRIORS 2014 ARE … (Posted 10th October 2014) The annual Eco Warrior Awards this year took place in front of a record audience, which included 170 hosted buyers from 36 countries around the world, invited media representatives and of course Kenya’s who is who, none of whom wanted to miss witnessing the […]
Fleet renewal and expansion gathers pace as Kenya Airways expects Dreamliner Number 6 next week
DOUBLE CELEBRATION FOR KENYA AIRWAYS COMING UP (Posted 09th October 2014) It is now two months already that Kenya Airways phased out all their six B767-300ER’s which faithfully served the airline for many years, and much longer than initially anticipated, as the state of the art B787-8 Dreamliner deliveries were delayed for reasons repeatedly explained […]
