Seychelles’ latest new hotel set to open on 18th of October
EDEN BLEU HOTEL SET TO OPEN WITH A BIG BANG JUST DAYS AHEAD OF FESTIVAL KREOL (Posted 09th October 2014) Eden Island’s first hotel, variably described as a business hotel as well as a residence, is set to open to the sounds of UB 40 which will be staging a show on Eden Island on […]
Fastjet still awaits clearance for Nairobi flights as results again improve
ANOTHER RECORD MONTH FOR FASTJET’S TANZANIA OPERATIONS (Posted 09th October 2014) September ended for Fastjet with a record breaking number of 57.756 passengers carried and a loadfactor of overall 74 percent, up nearly 80 percent compared to the same month a year ago. Punctuality, compared to August, reduced slightly to 88 percent of all departures […]
Magical Kenya – safe to visit and open for business
KENYA’S ACTING PRESIDENT TELLS MKTE2014 ATTENDEES THAT MAGICAL KENYA IS SAFE (Posted 09th October 2014) Over 170 hosted buyers and representatives of the over 100 exhibitors filled the Kenyatta International Convention Centre’s Aberdare Room to the brim yesterday when Kenya’s Acting President William S. Ruto officially opened this year’s Magical Kenya Travel Expo, his presence […]
Mozambique elephants obliterated
More news updates from the Conservation Action Trust Mozambique elephants obliterated. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Mozambique elephants obliterated Mail & Guardian | 03 October, 2014 | Estacios Valoi | Environmentalists warned in mid-September that killing for ivory by organised syndicates was being carried out on an “industrialised” scale […]
Lynne Leakey’s final safari in Kenya
Part of Lynne’s ashes will tomorrow be taken to one of her favourite spots in Kenya, Ithumba, by a handful of her closest friends, and finally scattered, according to her wishes, on Friday morning. Let the wind carry you with it my friend as you surely now are a guardian angel for the elephants.
Sauti za Busara News
The latest news update from Zanzibar’s best known festival Sauti za Busara (Mailing list information, including how to remove yourself, is located at the end of this message.) Read newsletter on, browser Do not reply to this email address. If you would like to get in touch please use busara Read the newsletter in: Francais […]
Done the beaches, done the safari parks and then there is Golf in Kenya
GOLF SET TO TAKE CENTRE STAGE ONCE MKTE2014 ENDS ON FRIDAY (Posted 08th October 2014) While the who is who of Kenya’s tourism industry will from this morning onwards showcase their properties and the country’s wide range of attractions, will Kenya’s golfing fraternity look keenly forward to Friday when the annual Kenya Golf Trophy competition […]
Sustainable tourism – fact and fiction
NEW REPORT BY STTA TAKES STOCK ON TOURISM’S SUSTAINABILITY IN KENYA (Posted 08th October 2014) Ms. Judy Kepher-Gona of the Sustainable Travel and Tourism Agenda, will tomorrow present a fresh off the press report on sustainable tourism, which was provoked by changing consumer choices where ever more travelers actually make their decisions which hotels or […]
Need information about Burundi and Rwanda? Look no further!
THE SERVICEMAG HELPS TO PUT BURUNDI AND RWANDA ON THE MAP (Posted 08th October 2014) The SERVICEMAG, now published in Burundi and in Rwanda with separate editions, has established itself as the main locally produced business and lifestyle magazine which has become a reference point in its own right over the years in Rwanda and […]
60 days and counting to the Swahili Fashion Week in Dar es Salaam
SWAHILI FASHION WEEK NOW FIRMLY ESTABLISHED AS A FASHION TOURISM EVENT (Posted 08th October 2014) The annual Swahili Fashion Week is now less than two months away and preparations are in high gear to once again deliver perfection for Mustafa Hassanali’s signature fashion event. Now in its seventh year will 24 of Eastern Africa’s best […]
Nonstop from Amsterdam to Entebbe – now three times a week
KLM UPS UGANDA CAPACITY WITH THREE NONSTOP FLIGHTS (Posted 07th October 2014) Good news were received from the KLM Kampala office which confirmed that effective 28th of October three of the now daily flights will be de-linked from the stopover in Kigali and become nonstop services. Ugandans travelling abroad, or returning home and visitors from […]
Who wouldn’t want to be named an EcoWarrior? Two days and counting for the 2014 winners!
THE COUNTDOWN IS ON FOR KENYA’S ECO WARRIOR AWARDS 2014 (Posted 07th October 2014) It is just two days to go now until this year’s Eco Warriors’ will be known in the 14 categories available for awards and it is time to let the readers have the finalists in the various fields. These are normally […]
It is listen and learn as MKTE’s Symposium day launches the 2014 edition of East Africa’s most important international tourism trade show
MAGICAL KENYA TRAVEL EXPO KICKS OFF IN THE MORNING WITH SEMINAR SESSIONS (Posted 07th October 2014) This year’s Magical Kenya Travel Expo will actually start in the morning already, a day ahead of the advertised dates, to allow for a full day of interaction in seminars packed with key note speakers. First launched last year […]
Re-launch of Mwanza flights gives RwandAir 17 destinations overall.
RWANDAIR RETURNS TO MWANZA (Posted 07th October 2014) RwandAir has just announced that they will resume flights to Mwanza, Tanzania’s lakeside city, effective 01st of November this year. Flight WB 470/1 will operate initially every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, using the airline’s Bombardier Q400NextGen, leaving Kigali at 13.30 hrs local time and arriving in Mwanza […]
New airline for Tanzania promises to be up and flying before Christmas
FLY SAX TANZANIA ANNOUNCES LAUNCH DATE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Posted 07th October 2014) Fly Sax (Tanzania) has announced that they are looking at a mid-December operations launch, using a Bombardier Q 400 with 68 seats to fly between Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Mwanza and Kigoma. It is understood that recruitment of staff is presently ongoing and […]
Lamu’s tourism industry in urgent need of a bail out and rescue package
ANTI TRAVEL ADVISORIES AND CURFEW COMBINE TO DESTROY LAMU’S TOURISM SECTOR (Posted 06th October 2014) Stark news are emerging from Lamu, that the owners of several hotels are ready to throw in the towel and put their properties on the market, not that there will be many takers since the tourism industry in this ancient […]
More international branded hotel groups eye Kampala
RADISSON BLU ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR A HOTEL IN UGANDA (Posted 06th October 2014) Uganda remains a target for international hotel groups with Rezidor’s Radisson Blu brand the latest to announce a planned entry into the country. Information received from the recently ended Africa Hotel Investment Forum in Addis Ababa indicates that the company will be […]
Lake Albert – Discover it now before the oil start’s flowing
LAKE ALBERT – WILDERNESS BROUGHT WITHIN REACH (Posted 06th October 2014) (Lake Albert as seen from inner space) The name Lake Albert inevitably inspires visions of the Africa of the explorer days, when lakes, rivers and mountains were named after royalty, days when the mere mention of such names brought about, almost at once, the […]
Marburg outbreak does not help to lower concerns over travel to Africa
MARBURG OUTBREAK CONFIRMED IN UGANDA (Posted 06th October 2014) For the second time in the space of two years was a Marburg fever case confirmed in Uganda, after a patient died last week and the laboratory tests by the Uganda Virus Institute in Entebbe confirmed the presence of the virus. From information at hand did […]
Funds to save the Virunga park must be subject to safeguards say Congo’ critics
EU MONEY TO SAFE THE VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK – BUT WERE ARE THE SAFEGUARDS (Posted 05th October 2014) Announcements that the Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will be getting more EU funding after already spending some 30+ million Euros over the past 25 years, have met with instant demands that safeguards must […]
AFRAA news updates on African aviation
Many readers can’t wait for the regular news updates from AFRAA, the African Airline Association and here is their latest broadcast, page by page.Enjoy!
UK’s change of travel advice on Kenya seen as crucial to aid tourism recovery
ARE THE UK TRAVEL ADVISORY CHANGES A TURNING POINT FOR KENYA? (Posted 05th October 2014) In time for some 150 hosted buyers and international media representatives coming to Kenya, to experience the country close up and personal ahead of the upcoming Magical Kenya Travel Expo which starts next Wednesday in Nairobi, has the UK’s Foreign […]
Uganda’s aviation sector – as dead as a Dodo
IT IS TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO AIR UGANDA (Posted 01st October 2014) The airline massacre unleashed by the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority’s action of 17th of June this year, when in an act of unparalleled magnitude all international flights by Ugandan registered airlines were grounded to avoid being cited, named and shamed by ICAO […]
Reunion seeks novel ways to have investors in the hospitality sector show creativity
DOUBLE PACK OF GOOD NEWS FROM REUNION (Posted 04th October 2014) Vanilla Islands founder member Reunion, focused on promoting the island in new and emerging markets across the world, has not forgotten the fundamentals at home though where the quality of services and infrastructure is a key to make a holiday enjoyable and problem free. […]
The Clooneys honeymoon secret is out … North Island / Seychelles
IT IS THE SEYCHELLES FOR THE CLOONEYS – THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE HONEYMOON DESTINATION (Posted 04th October 2014) There was much speculation where the latest celebrity newly weds would go for their honeymoon and inside information, given under the strictest of embargos not to publish before the Seychelles’ Minister for Tourism and Culture had made […]
Boeing delivers 10th B787-8 Dreamliner to Ethiopian Airlines
ETHIOPIAN MOVES INTO DOUBLE DIGIT DREAMLINER DELIVERIES (Posted 04th October 2014) The delivery of Ethiopian’s 10th B787-8 Dreamliner, now flying under registration ET-ARF, MSN 34752, which arrived in Addis Ababa on 02nd of October, has brought the overall number of such aircraft on the ET fleet to now 10. The newest plane now carrying Ethiopia’s […]
Emirates matches ‘Big Texas’ by bringing the big A380 to DFW
EMIRATES DEPLOYS THE AIRBUS A380 ON ROUTE TO DALLAS / FORT WORTH (Posted 04th October 2014) Travelers heading to Dallas or Fort Worth, coming from Eastern Africa, where Emirates serves Entebbe daily, Nairobi twice a day and Dar es Salaam 12 times a week, can look forward to travel with the world’s largest passenger aircraft […]
Reserve Your Ticket for the 2015 Safari Awards, London
When in London for the 2014 World Travel Market, make a date with the Safari Awards to witness the celebration of Africa’s best Safari Awards Networking Party & Awards Results Announcement View this email in your browser Join Your Peers at the Safari Awards Party 2nd November 2014 Attending WTM? Come and join us on […]
Go Places gives Lamu much needed support
LAMU TOURISM GETS A BOOST AS GO PLACES GETS INVOLVED (Posted 04th October 2014) Lamu’s tourism businesses will be getting the proverbial shot in the arm after Go Places, as part of their CSR activities, short for Corporate Social Responsibility, has announced they will support the Lamu Tourism Association in marketing the town’s tourism attractions. […]
Live report from SITE Tanzania
Denis Gathanju, the publisher of Safari Communications, has been at the opening day of SITE at the Milimani Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam and has filed this report, giving his first hand impressions of what the opening day of this inaugural tourism trade fair was like. Denis GATHANJU, Publisher P.O. BOX 13510, WESTLANDS 00800, […]
