Kenyan air fare wars – news update
KENYA AIRWAYS TURNS ON THE HEAT WITH NEW STAND BY FARES Undeterred by pending legal action and the sound of the collective teeth gritting in the industry has Kenya Airways just launched another volley into the aviation sector?s hottest route, when introducing a new stand by fare, at Kenya Shillings 3.000 return, all taxes included. […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region, Fifth edition November 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Fifth edition November 2010 Uganda News SACKED BY COURT AND STILL TRYING TO PUSH THE SNOUT INTO THE TROUGH Information came to light last week that those members of the UWA board […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region, Fourth edition November 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Fourth edition November 2010 Uganda News FLY 540 OFFERS NEW LOW FARE TO DAR ES SALAAM Efforts by airlines to retain, regain or capture added market share got yet more […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region, Third edition November 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Third edition November 2010 IDD MUBARAK TO ALL THE MUSLIM FAITHFUL ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO PERFORMED THE HAJ PILGRIMAGE THIS YEAR THE CHANDLERS ARE HOME – TIME TO END THIS MENACE ‘FROM HELL’ The Chandler […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region, Second edition November2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Second edition November 2010 Uganda News CONSERVATIONISTS CELEBRATE HUNTING SUSPENSION Information came into the public domain over the weekend that UWA has yielded to long lasting pressure on their decision to permit sports hunting in […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region First edition November 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome First edition November 2010 AUTUMN EDITION OF ‘AFRICA TRAVEL’ NOW AVAILABLE The latest ‘Travel Africa’ magazine, the autumn edition, reached me over the weekend and was as usual again providing a wealth of information […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Fourth edition October 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Fourth edition October 2010 Uganda News UWA SAGA RAGES ON Senior Presidential Advisor John Nagenda, himself a former chairman of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, has last weekend in his regular Saturday column […]
Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS The Seychelles Tourist Board recognizes 25 travel writers and travel journalists worldwide as ‘Friends of Seychelles – Press’, amongst them eTurboNews Publisher Juergen Thomas Steinmetz and this correspondent for ‘consistent and extensive positive coverage of the Seychelles’ tourism industry, the archipelago’s conservation activities and special events’. (In the picture below I am on an investigative […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Third edition October 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Third edition October 2010 Uganda News UGANDA CIVIL AVIATION SETS DATE FOR NEXT LICENCING HEARING The long awaited and much overdue public hearing of new and renewal applications for the consideration of air service licence applications. It […]
Tourism News from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean region Second edition October 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Second edition October 2010 LUFTHANSA TEAM PROMOTES CODE SHARED FLIGHTS A high powered team of Lufthansa German Airlines officials travelled across Eastern Africa last week to promote their code shared flights out of Addis Ababa […]
Tourism News from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean region First edition October 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome First edition October 2010 Uganda News HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO ALL UGANDANS ON OCTOBER 09th RHINO FUND TO HOLD MAIN ANNUAL FUNDRAISER The Rhino Fund Uganda is organising their annual main fundraising activity the […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Fourth edition September 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Fourth edition September 2010 Uganda News TELECOMS ‘WARS’ COME TO UGANDA TOO Following the current fierce battle over market shares in Kenya, where the new owners of former Celtel / Zain have ‘hit the market’ […]
Tourism News from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean region Third edition September 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Third edition September 2010 Uganda News NEMA NAMES MORE POLLUTERS, IGNORES WETLAND ENCROACHMENT The national environmental management authority last week again named and shamed leading corporate entities for their part in polluting the […]
Tourism News from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean region Second edition September 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Second edition September 2010 TULLOW OIL’S 3.1 BILLION US DOLLAR INVESTMENT IN BALANCE (One of the ‘ready’ oil wells in Murchisons Falls National Park, previously owned by Heritage Oil & Gas PLC and […]
Breaking News – Tullow Oil’s 3.1 billion US Dollar capital outlay at risk
TULLOW OIL’S 3.1 BILLION US DOLLAR INVESTMENT IN BALANCE As reported via a tweet shortly after it actually happened, the Ugandan government has withdrawn the licence of exploration block 3A, one of if not the richest oil basin found so far in the country. Only recently was I able to give a complete timeline overview […]
A visit to the ‘Gem on the Nile’ – the new Chobe Safari Lodge in the upper part of Murchisons Falls National Park
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Travel Report to Chobe Safari Lodge / Murchisons Falls National Park A VISIT TO THE CHOBE SAFARI LODGE – THE UPCOMING ‘GEM ON THE NILE’ For those who remember the ‘old’ Chobe lodge and […]
Tourism News from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean region First Edition September 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome First edition September 2010 Uganda News AIR UGANDA ADDS THIRD DAILY FLIGHT TO NAIROBI It was learned last week that following the low key delivery of another CRJ200 aircraft Air Uganda, in local aviation circles also […]
Tourism News from Eastern Africa and Indian Ocean region Fifth Edition August 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Fifth edition August 2010 Uganda News CHOBE SAFARI LODGE RE-OPENING IMMINENT As reported previously here, the Madhvani Group’s Marasa hospitality subsidiary was busy since last year in reconstructing the former Chobe Safari Lodge, located above […]
Breaking News from Uganda’s oil sector
TULLOW OIL – BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE Imagine a scenario, where a major oil company purchases the assets of another, pays close to 1.5 billion US Dollars for this purchase and only then finds out that their transaction has failed to gain the mandatory regulatory approvals. Impossible you may think but true […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Fourth Edition August 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Fourth edition August 2010 NEED MORE FROM AFRICA? I often get enquiries about where else readers of my articles can pick up material about Africa, destination information and conservation updates … well, I […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Third Edition August 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Third edition August 2010 Uganda News ANTI HUNTING LOBBY SENSES NEW CHANCE TO STOP THE BLOOD SPORT The anti hunting lobby in Uganda has taken fresh hope, following reports last week that the top […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Second Edition August 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Second edition August 2010 I WISH A PEACEFUL AND BLESSED MONTH OF RAMADHAN TO ALL THE MUSLIM FAITHFUL AROUND THE GLOBE, AS THEY COMMENCE THEIR ANNUAL FAST ERITREAN NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM TURNS UP IN […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region First Edition August 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome First edition August 2010 HOUSTON MARKETING’S WORKSHOPS FOCUS ON ‘SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICA & INDIAN OCEAN’ South Africa based Houston Marketing is once again arranging for a series of travel trade workshops in Southern […]
Breaking News – Breaking News
CAMPSITE RAIDED IN MASAI MARA CONSERVATION AREA Reports are being received from Nairobi that shortly after 8 p.m. on Monday night a group of armed raiders, thought to have crossed the border from Tanzania into neighbouring Kenya, attacked a private tented camp put up for the night by long term Kenya residents on a local […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Fourth Edition July 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Fourth edition July 2010 Uganda News GEO LODGES MIX ART AND SAFARI The Uganda based GeoLodges, formerly known as ‘Inns of Uganda’ has recently started to promote local artists and art pieces through […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Third edition July 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Third edition July 2010 Uganda News NATIONAL MOURNING ENDS – AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT STARTS Monday saw the long awaited African Union Summit kick off with ministerial and panel of expert meetings, as the one […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Second Edition July 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Second edition July 2010 BRUSSELS AIRLINES ADDS 5TH A330-300 TO FLEET As already indicated here several months ago – the airline at the time would not confirm or deny – SN has now […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region First edition July 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome First edition July 2010 Uganda News KEY UGANDA ELECTION DATES SET Uganda is now in pre-election mode after the electoral commission has announced the dates for aspiring candidates of parliamentary and civic seats, […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Fifth Edition June 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Fifth edition June 2010 Uganda News LAB REPORT CONFIRMS ANTHRAX IN HIPPPO DEATHS As reported here recently a number of hippopotamus died in a remote part of Queen Elizabeth National Park, leaving open […]
Tourism News from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Fourth Edition June 2010
TOURISM NEWS from the Eastern African and Indian Ocean region Reports, Travel Stories and Opinions By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome Fourth edition June 2010 UNITED COMMENCES ACCRA FLIGHTS – NO EAST AFRICA CONNECTION IN SIGHT Last weekend saw the first ever United Airlines service commence between Washington’s Dulles Airport and Accra / Ghana, […]
