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Cyanika border between Rwanda and Uganda to get facelift

NEW STRUCTURES PLANNED FOR CYANIKA / UGANDA BORDER TO EASE TRADE AND TRAVEL (Posted 01st October 2013) The Cyanika border crossing between Uganda and Rwanda has been popular with tourists and safari operators, as two key tourism regions connect at that point, Uganda’s Bwindi and Mgahinga national parks and Rwanda’s Parc de Volcanoes. Many visitors […]

Promoting Uganda’s tourism attractions – a unique grass root stakeholder initiative

UGANDA’S HIDDEN TOURISM SECRETS – UNVEILED ON WORLD TOURISM DAY (Posted 27th September 2013) There are rare occasions when one comes across a truly exceptional idea, initiative or voluntary undertaking, and when it touches on the very core of my professional interest, tourism, it can be sure to be showcased and given exposure, in local, […]

Zimbabwe Tourism – seeking to reclaim lost ground

GREAT ZIMBABWE – IN ANY WHICH WAY (Posted 15th June 2016) Back in Zimbabwe for the first time in a year – scheduling conflicts made it impossible to attend the Harare International Carnival last September – I find myself faced with the same questions from readers: ‘Why Zimbabwe’ or ‘What is so special about Zimbabwe’ […]

The story of a hospitality career – close up and personal

FROM CASUAL WAITRESS TO RESTAURANT MANAGER AND NO LIMITS TO FUTURE CAREER PROSPECTS – THE STORY OF FAUSY MUWAWU (Posted 04th December 2015) (Fausy, on the right, seen here with a colleague at the award winning Pearl of Africa Restaurant) In 2004/5, when Serena Hotels signed a deal with the Ugandan government for a long […]

Gifted but too poor to study? This Ugandan foundation makes a difference!

166 QUALIFY FOR A MADHVANI SCHOLARSHIP IN 2015/16 (Posted 17th August 2015) Hotel management, food science and environmental course students were among the 166 selected this year from over 2.000 applicants seeking the support from Uganda’s richest scholarship foundation. Some 147 graduate students are joined by 19 post graduate students and will benefit from 700 […]

If one door closes, open another one …

KWITA IZINA PUSHED TO SEPTEMBER? LET’S PARTY ANYWAY! (Posted 21st June 2015) Musanze’s Red Rock Backpackers last weekend launched a Summer Camp Festival, which will run every Friday to Sunday until early September, when Kwita Izina, the annual naming of the gorillas, will take place on the 05th of September. Owner Greg Bakunzi, on tour […]

No 375 Wildlife Trade News: 4th April

Your daily dose of bad news about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes in the spotlight today ……………………because the CITES secretariat blocks such news about China from its web site. SHOCK number of border seizures exposes true scale of the slaughter of endangered animals. UK. EXTRACT: China is the most frequent country of origin for these […]

No 319 Wildlife Trade News 29th January 2015

Nature alert continues to provide updates on poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes and with their permission I share this daily dose of bad news with my readers … in the spotlight today …………………… Kasukuwere petitioned over sale of baby elephants. The Zimbabwe Conservation Taskforce (ZCTF) today submitted a petition against the sale of baby elephants […]

No 265 Wildlife Trade News 14th November 2014

Your daily dose of bad news about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes from around the world under the spotlight today …………………… Who said, yesterday,: “Demand for valuable tropical timber, from Europe and China in particular has sent illegal logging spiralling out of control.”? The answer can be found in this newsletter. This raises another question […]

No 263 Wildlife Trade News 12th November 2014

The daily dose of bad news about the ongoing global poaching crisis, about wildlife and environmental crimes from around the world under the spotlight today …………………… China flouts efforts to protect world’s wildlife extract: For two decades at least, Chinese consumer demand has been directly linked to the precipitous decline of wildlife populations around the […]

ATA teams up with UNAA to promote Uganda

UGANDA BUILDS ON PRESENCE AT AFRICA SUMMIT TO PROMOTE THE COUNTRY (Posted 06th August 2014) The Africa Travel Association, which is due to hold its annual world congress in Uganda from the 11th to the 16th of November at the Commonwealth Resort in Munyonyo / Kampala, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Uganda […]

Kampala – no longer a culinary and cultural diaspora

KAMPALA CONNOISSEUR FESTIVAL OR CHAMPAGNE BREAKFAST OR BOTH? (Posted 03rd August 2014) At noon today will this year’s ‘Kampala-Lite’s Connoisseur Festival’ kick off at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel Lion Centre and Gardens. This now regular event on the socialite’s calendar in Kampala is a sign of the Ugandan capital progressively emerging from the culinary dark […]

Chameleon Hill Lodge – Uganda’s latest architectural fashion statement

CHAMELEON HILL – A LODGE OR AN ARCHITECTURAL FASHION STATEMENT (Posted 23rd August 2013) When rounding the last corner and getting my first glimpse of the Chameleon Hill Lodge, I must have made a sight to behold, mouth wide open, staring in disbelief, training the binoculars on the lodge, or was it a fantasy castle, […]

Lake Mutanda comes of age

LAKE MUTANDA FINALLY COMES OF AGE (Posted 22nd August 2013) (A view of Lake Mutanda, its islands and the distant Virunga volcanoes from the Chameleon Hill Lodge) Lake Mutanda, and the nearby Lake Mulehe, have for long captured the imagination of locals and visitors alike, but have never quite made it to the top of […]

Happy Easter Holidays – (Early) Weekly roundup of news from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands, First edition April 2013

AVIATION, TOURISM AND CONSERVATION NEWS from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. A weekly roundup of breaking news, reports, travel stories and opinions by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome You can get your daily breaking news updates instantly via Twitter by following @whthome, join me on www.facebook.com/WolfgangHThome where the articles also ‘cross load’ or […]

Exploring East Africa by overland bus is a low budget option for more and more

BUDGET TOURISTS INCREASINGLY TAKE TO OVERLAND BUSSES TO EXPLORE EAST AFRICA The softening demand for holidays in Eastern Africa from the main ‘producer countries’ in Europe, suffering from economic woes and downturns, has brought focus back on a group of travelers often overlooked, often ignored and often belittled by the mainstream tourism fraternity. Yet, these […]

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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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