Pirate treasures? What pirate treasures? Try Seychelles where another dig is underway!
BEL OMBRE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT AS NEW PIRATE TREASURE DIG GOES UNDERWAY (Posted 04th April 2016) The past of the Seychelles, like that of other Vanilla Islands members, is the stuff novels have been written about, speculating over the treasures chests famous pirates like La Buse have reportedly buried or hidden. Reunion in fact saw […]
Kenya makes partial U-Turn over JKIA expansion
AIRLINE PRESSURE SEES KENYA GOVERNMENT MAKE U-TURN AS SECOND RUNWAY WILL NOW BE BUILT (Posted 04th April 2016) When news broke last week that the Kenyan government and the Kenya Airport Authority were scaling back the planned expansion of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport into a world class aviation facility by 2018/19, was the stage set […]
Qatar Airways plans to switch to the B787 Dreamliner on Geneva route
MAJOR CAPACITY RISE COMING TO GENEVA WHEN QATAR AIRWAYS SWITCHES TO THE B787 IN JULY (Posted 03rd April 2016) Qatar Airways, one of the OneWorld Alliance’s leading members, has earlier today announced that come July will flights to Geneva, Switzerland’s most international city and home to the United Nation’s European offices, be upgraded from the […]
Africa’s leading online travel agency set for expansion to the UAE, UK and US
WAKANOW CHANGES THE ONLINE GAME AS AFRICA’S NUMBER ONE GEARS UP FOR GLOBAL EXPANSION (Posted 03rd April 2016) Africa’s leading online travel agency, born in Nigeria before spreading across West Africa into the wider continent, is setting the stage for a reversal of otherwise global trends in this industry. Previously have global travel companies expanded […]
Air Kenya’s Ndege News – March 2016 to May 2016
Enjoy some additional news from Kenya … HOME GM’S MESSAGE FEATURES NEWS UPDATES FEATURES Born to be Wild at Elsa’s Kopje No one dares whisper. My eight year old girl tries to get my attention "Mama. I can’t see…" Just then, a great grunt and the rhinos crash out of the bushes and onto the […]
Meet Reunion Tourism at WTM Africa
REUNION TO EXHIBIT AT WTM AFRICA 2016 (Posted 03rd April 2016) WTM Africa: IRT continues its conquest of the South African market Africa World Travel Market (WTM Africa), which takes place from 06th to 08th of April in Cape Town is THE B2B event for marketing destinations in the South African market. For the third […]
Kenya clarifies: ‘No Yellow Fever Outbreak in the country’
KENYA ANGRY OVER FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT YELLOW FEVER SITUATION (Posted 03rd April 2016) Kenyan tourism circles showed consternation and growing anger with the careless use of language employed by fellow EAC member countries and companies, suggesting that the country had suffered a Yellow Fever outbreak. Fact is that two passengers who arrived on Kenya Airways […]
News from AFRAA, the African Airline Association
Strike threats by Brussels airport police expose the soft underbelly of Europe’s aviation security
INCORPORATE OUR DEMANDS FOR IMPROVED SECURITY MEASURES OR ELSE (Posted 02nd April 2016) The only party still smelling of roses in the increasingly drawn out battle behind the scenes between several stakeholders including Zaventem Airport, Aviation Security and Police at present is Brussels Airlines. The carrier, robbed of an early return to its hub airport, […]
Seychelles cabinet approves new Maritime Museum
ANOTHER ATTRACTION IN THE MAKING FOR VISITORS TO THE SEYCHELLES (Posted 02nd April 2016) Seychelles has a rich maritime heritage, dating back to long before the 17th century. Since then until the early 1970’s when Seychelles got its own airport, those travelling to these stunning islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean had to […]
Seychelles Carnival – Three weeks and counting
SEYCHELLES TOURISM TAKES CARNIVAL MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE (Posted 02nd April 2016) The Seychelles Ministry of Tourism and Culture and its Tourism Board opened the month of April with their sensitization campaign for the coming 2016 edition of the island’s Carnaval International de Victoria, the event that appears today on all the calendar of events […]
More elephant killings in South Sudan cast doubts over the future of wildlife
POACHERS USE GENERAL TURMOIL IN SOUTH SUDAN TO DECIMATE ELEPHANT HERDS (Posted 02nd April 2016) When a few months ago 15 elephant carcasses were found, their tusks cut out, were questions being raised about South Sudan’s commitment to wildlife conservation, given that the country has not yet put their civil strife behind it. Now, reports […]
Wildlife managers – Guardians or Ruffians
MOHAWK SHOOTING IN KENYA LEAVES PUBLIC OUTRAGED (Posted 02nd April 2016) It is for pictures like this one that many tourists come to Kenya and in particular visit the Nairobi National Park, where, if lucky enough, one can see the lion king against the silhouette of Nairobi’s Central Business District in the background. Of late […]
Shamwari News – From and about Africa’s best travel publications
Keen to see your safari photographs published? Read on and learn about the Nature’s Best Photography Africa competition and take part. Jambo! We’ll be mailing the new edition of Travel Africa magazine (74) to all subscribers early next week, and we hope you enjoy the features and ideas we’ve gathered for you! But in the […]
Progress report on the KILIFAIR 2016 – 63 days to go…
Belgian authorities now in the cross hairs for failing to clear Brussels Airport for operations
BRUSSELS AIRLINES FORCED TO STAY OUT OF ZAVENTEM FOR THREE MORE DAYS AS BELGIAN AUTHORITIES FAIL TO APPROVE TEMPORARY STRUCTURES (Posted 01st April 2016) Reports from airline sources indicate that traffic to Europe has taken a broad hit following the attack on Brussels Airport some 11 days ago and that the trend appears to be […]
Conservation Education on Ol Pejeta – Join their Webinar to learn more about Conservation
Ol Pejeta’s Conservation Education Programme Dear Friend of Ol Pejeta: We would like to invite you to Ol Pejeta’s third Webinar, on Monday the 11th of April 2016 at 5 pm EAT. A webinar is an interactive online presentation. Several members of Ol Pejeta’s senior management will make presentations and participants will get a chance […]
Northern Rangelands Trust News updates
Welcome to Wild Frontiers! Before we give you your three snippets of NRT from March, we’d like to announce NRT’s new visual identity. We have launched a brand new NRT logo and style. NRT has worked hard to build trust, both within the communities of northern Kenya and with our partners. We have also worked […]
Juba airport to resume weekend operations by end April
SOUTH SUDAN CIVIL AVIATION CONFIRMS JUBA AIRPORT TO REOPEN FOR WEEKEND FLIGHTS (Posted 01st April 2016) Weekend flights, which, as reported here at the time, were suspended last year to allow for the Juba (IATA: JUB | ICAO: HSSJ) airport runway to be extended and the existing runway to be resurfaced, will resume by the […]
East African Wildlife Society’s Press Release: Unwarranted Killing of Nairobi Park’s Star Lion
I have sharply condemned the killing of this lion and said in a Tweet that he was shot in cold blood, to the apparent upset of people I know at KWS. Sorry my friends, your response to this lion excursion left everything to be desired and the press statements, very sadly, were not worth the […]
UNWTO releases new publications
Kenya Airways enters second phase of cost reduction
AFTER ASSET SALES, FLEET REDUCTION AND OTHER SAVINGS ARE STAFF COST REDUCTIONS NEXT IN LINE AT KENYA AIRWAYS (Posted 31st March 2016) First it was the change in senior management figures, thought to bear significant responsibility for decisions taken in the past which led Kenya Airways close to the financial abyss. Then came the progressive […]
Reunion celebrates ‘Tourism Week’
REUNION MEETS INDIA – THE THEME OF THE 2016 TOURISM WEEK FESTIVAL ON THE ISLAND (Posted 31st March 2016) Seventh edition of the Tourism Festival in Reunion The Tourism Professional University Institute (IUP) on Reunion is organizing the seventh edition of the Tourism Week. This event comes as part of the academic training activity for […]
More from the World Tourism Wire …
Updates and comments on activities by UNWTO, WTTC, PATA, ETOA, ICTP and other global organization leading the global travel & tourism industry www.worldtourismwire.com Ministerial Debate with the Private Sector on Pacific Island Tourism The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), in partnership with the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), will hold the PATA/UNWTO Ministerial Debate on Pacific […]
The Livingstone biWeekly – more tourism news from ‘Further Down South’
Courtesy of Gill Staden, here comes another edition of the Livingstone bi-Weekly covering events in Zambia, Zimbabwe and beyond … https://thelivingstoneweekly.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/tlbw30mar16-compressed.pdf Cliff diving off the Victoria Falls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbAXEFJaCs Inside the newsletter: Staple food prices Fuel crisis Kazungula pontoon Barotse Floodplain highway Solwezi-Chingola Road Kapenta and Lerish No IMF Programme New Maps Zimbabwe Fishermen arrested SMART […]
Uganda’s President Museveni emerges victorious as election petition thrown out by Supreme Court
MUSEVENI NOW PLANS FOR SWEARING IN CEREMONY AS SUPREME COURT THROWS OUT PETITION (Posted 31st March 2016) The Supreme Court just now rendered its verdict over the Petition before it, where one of the losing candidates for President had challenged the election of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. While observing some logistical shortcomings and noting some […]
Reunion returns to Chennai to market the island in India
INDIA REMAINS A HUGELY IMPORTANT MARKET FOR REUNION (Posted 31st March 2016) The second edition of the Destination Reunion Forum was held in Chennai. The project is the brainchild of the French Consulate in Pondicherry and the event was dedicated to tourism professionals in Chennai and Tamil Nadu. While there did the Reunion Island Tourism […]
Qatar Airways adds Birmingham as fourth UK destination
MORE CHOICES FOR EAST AFRICANS TRAVELLING TO THE UK (Posted 31st March 2016) The United Kingdom remains on top of the countries visited by travelers from Eastern Africa and ever ready to meet market demands has Qatar Airways now launched daily flights between Doha and Birmingham, the fourth destination in Britain for the award winning […]
One more day before Zaventem reopens for traffic
10 DAYS AND COUNTING AS ZAVENTEM REMAINS CLOSED FOR TRAFFIC (Posted 31st March 2016) Following the last tweet by @BrusselsAirport at 17.28 hrs yesterday afternoon, which read: The evaluation of the trial is still ongoing and will take at least till tomorrow afternoon. No flights till then. has no further information emerged, not from any […]
Search is on for owners of nabbed blood ivory at Nairobi’s international airport
64 KILOGRAMS OF BLOOD IVORY SEIZED AT JOMO KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AS CABINET SECRETARY OFFERS A LIMITED TIME AMNESTY (Posted 30th March 2016) Yesterday afternoon did increased vigilance and improved surveillance methods pay off when officials confiscated 64 kilograms of ivory, concealed in gunny bags and stuffed into buckets, was found by security operatives using […]
