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Uganda Airlines makes travel to Nairobi easy and affordable – Part 4 of 4

MAKING TRAVEL TO KENYA EASY – AFFORDABLE FLIGHTS COMBINED WITH GREAT HOTEL OFFERS (Posted 01st February 2020) The final article in this series takes a closer look at the Nairobi hotel market in general, after extensively covering the budget hotel segment, the top luxury hotel segment and the ‘middle of the road’ segment in parts […]

#EthiopianAirlines captures Leading Airline for #Africa at World Travel Awards 2019

LEADING AIRLINE AND LEADING AIRLINE BRAND TROPHIES HANDED TO ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES AT WORLD TRAVEL AWARDS 2019 IN MAURITIUS (Posted 02nd June 2019) Ethiopian Airlines took double honours on Saturday night in Mauritius, when the World Travel Awards for the Indian Ocean islands and for Africa were announced before a sellout crowd at the Sugar Beach […]

Sharing my best experiences during my travels in 2018

THE OFTEN ASKED QUESTION: ‘WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND‘ IS ANSWERED RIGHT HERE (Posted 31st December 2018) I decided to be positive at the end of the year and only share the best of my experiences during the past 12 months, though there would be plenty to tell about bad, worse and worst experiences, with airlines, […]

The World Travel Awards Africa 2018 go to familiar names

WORLD TRAVEL AWARD CEREMONY IN #DURBAN CELEBRATES EXCELLENCE (Posted 07th October 2018) Congratulations are in order for Gamewatchers / Porini which last night was handed the award for being the continental winner of Africa’s Responsible Tourism Award, a major honour and also recognition for the work done by the company and its founders Jake Grieves […]

An outlook on #Tourism in #Uganda and the wider Eastern African region

UGANDA’S TOURISM INDUSTRY IN 2018 – CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (Posted 29th December 2017) The global outlook given by tourism world body UNWTO for next year is confident that the anticipated new traveller record for 2017 will be bettered again. Travel to Africa however continues to underperform and raising the percentage of visitors to the continent […]

And the never ending story continues unabated …

IS THERE MORE TROUBLE BREWING AGAIN FOR THE #AYAHOTEL IN #KAMPALA? (Posted 23rd October 2017) FIRST A HILTON AND THEN NOT … THEN A CARLSON REZIDOR QUORVUS COLLECTION AND THEN, SURPRISE SURPRISE, NOT … OPENED 1O YEARS LATE AND THEN SOME … AND NOW THE BANK APPARENTLY WANTS THEIR MONEY BACK … It is as […]

Carlson Rezidor sees East Africa as a major growth market

CARLSON REZIDOR SET TO LAUNCH MORE OF THEIR BRANDS IN EAST AFRICA (Posted 26th January 2017) The Belgium based global hotel group has clearly set its eyes on Africa, where growth opportunities exist in plenty. Besides, as previously reported here, new hotels in Kigali and Nairobi under the Park Inn brand, will before mid 2017 […]

Regional hospitality leader does not rest on its laurels

SERENA INVESTS BIG BUCKS IN THEIR CITY HOTELS (Posted 08th August 2016) Regional hospitality market leader Serena Hotels are clearly keeping an eye on the competition and as a host of international hotel brands are now pushing into East Africa are steps being taken across Serena’s city properties to upgrade, modernize and add capacity to […]

And the winners in Africa are …

TRAVEL OSCAR NIGHT REWARDS WINNING TEAMS (Posted 10th April 2016) The Africa and Indian Ocean World Travel Awards Ceremony last night at the Diamond La Gemma dell’ Est, aka Star of the East, brought together CEO’s and top managers of the contenders for awards and prizes from across the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands and the […]

More global hospitality brand names coming to Uganda

BEST WESTERN SET TO OPEN IN ENTEBBE IN Q2 OF 2016 (Posted 10th January 2016) After Sheraton, which entered the Ugandan hospitality market in the second part of the 1980’s and Protea – now a Marriott brand – which came to the country ahead of the Commonwealth Summit in 2007 and now operates two hotels […]

Addis Ababa set to get a Crowne Plaza

IHG’S CROWNE PLAZA BRAND COMES TO ETHIOPIA (Posted 01st October 2014) News are emerging from Addis Ababa that the InterContinental Hotel Group, in short IHG, has signed a deal with developers in Ethiopia to build a 210 suites and rooms Crowne Plaza Hotel. The site is reportedly located near key organizations like the African Union […]

Marriott Kigali – less than a year to go to opening

MARRIOTT KIGALI INSIDE A YEARS COUNTDOWN NOW As recently reported here, the first batch of 14 trainees from Rwanda has already gone to Dubai for induction at the Marriott Dubai Harbour Hotel & Suites there, before being deployed into various properties along the Gulf states of Kuwait, Doha and Muscat. They will in nine months […]

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome is the founder and publisher of ATCNews, Eastern Africa’s leading aviation, tourism and conservation news blog of its kind. Wolfgang has over 48 years of experience in the tourism, aviation and conservation fields in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, covering all aspects of safari-, hotel- and air-operations. 

The Managing Editor of ATCNews is Mrs. Esther C. Goossens.

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