Reunion’s MASCARUN another success for the island’s tourism industry
MASCARUN CHALLENGE A SUCCESS AGAIN (Posted 26th June 2016) 24 professionals from the European tourism markets on 20th of June came to the island of Reunion to attend the annual Rally Mascarun. Aboard their hire car, the four members of each team went every day into the field after getting briefed by the key actors […]
RwandAir brings ‘Umuganda’ to Kampala
COMMUNITY SERVICE – BROUGHT TO KAMPALA BY RWANDAIR (Posted 26th June 2016) The Kampala suburb of Nakawa was the place where RwandAir, in conjunction with the Kampala Capital City Authority, launched their unique community service programme from back home, called ‘Umuganda‘. In Rwanda, every last Saturday of the month, do all citizens participate for half […]
Is latest aircraft debris find from MH370?
THE MH370 MYSTERY DEEPENS AS NEW DEBRIS IS FOUND ON THE TANZANIAN ISLAND OF PEMBA (Posted 26th June 2016) When Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared was the global aviation industry left baffled for the lack of finding the wreckage, in fact for the lack of direction the flight might have taken in its final hours […]
Kenya Airport Authority gets new chair
KIMAIYO SACKED FROM KAA (Posted 26th June 2016) Bad fortunes continue to haunt the once almost almighty Mr. David Kimaiyo, when his appointment as Chairman of the Kenya Airport Authority was revoked by President Uhuru Kenyatta, in other words, when he was handed another sacking. Kimaiyo’s notoriety rose swiftly after he was made Kenya’s top […]
South Sudan tourism authorities vow to crack down on unlicensed operators
LACK OF OPERATING PERMITS WILL COME TO HAUNT BRIEFCASE SAFARI OPERATORS (Posted 24th June 2016) An attempted smear campaign against the presently one and only fully licenced safari operator in South Sudan, Bahr el Jebel Safaris, will have less than desired outcomes by the perpetrators it was learned overnight. Local sources were swift to point […]
General Electric to invest half a billion Rand in South Africa, for Africa
HUGE INNOVATION CENTRE IN THE MAKING – BY GENERAL ELECTRIC FOR THE AFRICAN CONTINENT (Posted 24th June 2016) As Britain’s investments in Africa suddenly appear in doubt, after the country – following the majority vote last night to leave the European Union – enters a period of political and economic uncertainty which is naturally hostile […]
New national airline for Uganda?
PRESIDENT MUSEVENI TELLS HIS NEW CABINET THAT A NEW AIRLINE IS NEEDED (Posted 24th June 2016) President Museveni, when addressing the first cabinet meeting of his new government, reportedly told them that ‘because our brothers in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa let us down‘ the formation of a national airline was now a priority. When […]
More charter flights return to Mombasa
CONDOR THE FIRST EUROPEAN LEISURE AIRLINE TO RAMP UP FLIGHTS TO MOMBASA (Posted 24th June 2016) Germany’s leading leisure airline Condor, now part of the Thomas Cook Group, has resumed a second weekly flight to Mombasa. The Munich to Mombasa flight operates nonstop and terminates in the Kenyan port city while the weekly Frankfurt to […]
Kenya Airways – Brighter days ahead
HARD DECISION YIELD RESULTS AS KENYA AIRWAYS’ FUTURE NOW LOOKS BRIGHT AGAIN (Posted 23rd June 2016) Latest indications coming from Embakasi, Kenya Airways’ corporate headquarters, are such that for all intent and purpose the financial corner has now been turned. This follows several cash generating asset sales and leasing out of aircraft. Among them are […]
Major rebranding of African e-Commerce platforms underway
AFRICA INTERNET GROUP REBRANDS KEY SERVICE ELEMENTS UNDER ONE SINGLE NAME (Posted 23rd June 2016) Ever heard of Jovago.Com, Africa’s arguably largest hotel booking platform? Ever heard of Hello Food, a meal delivery service working hand in hand with – in my case – Kampala’s leading restaurants to deliver quality meals directly to the table […]
Where would you fit a tracking collar on a giraffe? Look closely to find out…
More news from Travel Africa Magazine … Jambo! Thank you so much to all of you who voted for your favourite cover choice for the next edition of Travel Africa! After much heated debate here in the office, and a generous leaning by our readers towards one option in particular, we’ve finally made a decision… […]
News and images from the Kenyan bush
Courtesy of Jake Grieves – Cook and Porini Camps / Gamewatcher Safaris, here are some thrilling pictures and articles, highlighting some of Kenya’s best locations … An update from Porini Safari Camps Here in Kenya the rainy season has come to an end and life is returning to the plains. Animals great and small are […]
Campi ya Kanzi makes headlines in Financial Times travel section
ROOTS IN NEIGHBOURING COMMUNITIES MAKES ‘CAMPI YA KANZI‘ WHAT IT IS (Posted 23rd June 2016) Much has been written here in the past about the concept of Campi ya Kanzi, which is located in the Chyulu Hills and offers spectacular views across the plains below all the way to Mt. Kilimanjaro. The award winning camp […]
UNWTO Logo competition for the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017
Carnival and national monuments – there is a place for both in the Seychelles
CARNIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE VICTORIA – LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING AHEAD (Posted 23rd June 2016) Two months ago was the Seychelles’ capital of Victoria, aka the Kreol Capital of the World, a beehive of activity as the 2016’s carnival main activity, the grand parade, was being prepared to begin its waltz through the city. No doubt, […]
Aviation Security should be part of the National Security infrastructure
More from Ikechi Uko’s ATQ News from Lagos / Nigeria ATQnews.com a member of Travel Media Group. This is the online platform for African Travel Quarterly (ATQ), the first Travel magazine in West Africa which solely focuses on travel and tourism issues. It started publishing offline about 10 years ago. ATQnews.com features reports that cover […]
Lillian Gaitho takes a look at the role of PR during corporate rebranding
By Lillian Gaitho The Five Roles of PR during Corporate Rebranding In many ways, when a company rebrands, there’s bound to be a new phase of PR campaign that may involve dealing with both internal and external communication, to make sure that all involved stakeholders are speaking the same language and moving at the same […]
Swift pilot action saves the day
PRECISION AIR LOSES ENGINE TO FIRE BUT GAINS PUBLIC ADMIRATION FOR SWIFT PILOT ACTION (Posted 23rd June 2016) A textbook reaction by the two pilots on a Precision Air ATR 72-500 saved the day when one of the two engines reportedly showed signs of a fire on take off from the main Zanzibari island of […]
VAT on tourism services set to become test case on public private sector relations
TANZANIA’S TOURISM MINISTER MOCKS PRIVATE SECTOR WITH QUESTION ‘WHERE WILL THEY GO‘ (Posted 23rd June 2016) ‘It seems we got another incompetent fellow in the tourism ministry after all! I tell you where those tourists will go who are unwilling to pay 18 percent more for taxes on their safari packages: They will go to […]
A380 number 80
EMIRATES TAKES DELIVERY OF 80TH AIRBUS A380 (Posted 23rd June 2016) Award winning Emirates, Dubai’s national airline, has taken delivery of their 80th Airbus A380, allowing the addition of yet more destinations to be served with the world’s largest passenger aircraft. This makes Emirates the by far largest operator of this aircraft type and a […]
Travel Africa asks you: ‘Help us choose the next cover!’
Here is a chance to make your choice of picture stick and appear on the next cover of Travel Africa … Help us choose the next cover! The forthcoming July-September issue of Travel Africa (going to print early next week) includes a cover story celebrating 50 secrets about Botswana, to coincide with that country’s golden […]
Help Save Diani’s Primates from Electrocutions
Help Save Diani’s Wildlife from Electrocutions Meet Bolt, an adult male galago, just one of the many electrocution victims that we receive through our doors at Colobus Conservation. Bolt is one of the lucky ones as he has survived. Shockingly, most electrocution cases do not survive, and what is more worrying is that our second […]
More news from further down south …
The latest edition of Gill Staden’s ‘The Livingstone bi-Weekly‘ with news from Zambia, Zimbabwe and beyond … https://thelivingstoneweekly.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/tlbw23jun16-compressed-1.pdf Gill this week also presents some videos from Zambia to watch: Livingstone Art Gallery Violin Performance at the EMIZ music camp recital on 10.06.16 https://www.facebook.com/elijahmissioninternational/videos/521318721410292/ Invictus K9 at Lower Zambezi We’ve undertaken a new project and selected […]
Kenya Tourism hosts ‘Bollywood’ producers
BOLLYWOOD SCOUTING FOR LOCATIONS IN MAGICAL KENYA (Posted 22nd June 2016) Kenya Tourism this evening hosted a cocktail reception at the Sankara Hotel for a group of visiting film producers from ‘Bollywood‘, arguably the most prolific film production location in the world. The top seven producers are on tour in Kenya to scout for potential […]
The vision for ONE East African tourism marketing approach is not shared by all
TANZANIA YET TO JOIN THE COMMON TOURIST VISA (Posted 22nd June 2016) Last Friday did yet another meeting of the East Africa Tourism Platform take place, this time in Arusha, as a follow up of the Kigali meeting in early February. EATP promotes East Africa as a single destination founded on growth, dynamism and investment. […]
Mauritius Tourism launched new Mobile App
DESTINATION APPS NOW RULE NEW MARKET SEGMENTS FOR THE CYBER GENERATION (Posted 22nd June 2016) A new mobile app was launched earlier this week by the Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority (MTPA) which can be installed on smartphones, phablets and tablets and downloaded free of charge. The Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority launched its new mobile application, […]
Zambia suspends hippo cull after conservation groups appeal
HIPPO CULL AT LUANGWA RIVER VALLEY SUSPENDED BY ZAMBIAN AUTHORITIES (Posted 22nd June 2016) Following the feature here on 11th of June, in which it was reported that the Zambian authorities were going ahead with a major hippo cull, numbering as many as 2.000 of these river inhabitants, have news now emerged that the cull […]
Wildlife and Community News from Ol Pejeta
I have often described Ol Pejeta as one of Kenya’s most complete wilderness experiences, with all of the Big Five found on one conservancy just 3 and a bit hours drive from Nairobi. Enjoy the read! Dear Friends of Ol Pejeta, Successful ear notching for 29 rhinos This month was a busy one for our […]
Another global hospitality brand comes to Uganda
BEST WESTERN PREMIER ‘GARDEN HOTEL ENTEBBE‘ OPENS THIS WEEKEND (Posted 22nd June 2016) Entebbe, the Ugandan town which is home to the country’s main international airport and seat of the Head of State, will this Saturday get its second international hotel brand when the Best Western Premier opens its doors to guests. The hotel features […]
