News from Gamewatchers Safaris
The latest news from Porini and Gamewatchers Safaris Gamewatchers Safaris September 2014 Greetings Porini Enthusiast! We are now coming to the end of our busy summer peak season and have had some great feedback from our many visitors who have been on safari with us in the last three months. The wildebeest migration in the […]
Rail or road – a big question which answers will shape the future of East Africa
TORORO – GULU – PAKWACH RAIL LINE NEEDS MORE THAN NEW LOCOMOTIVES AND WAGONS (Posted 21st September 2014) The re-opening last year by President Museveni of the long dormant railway line between Tororo and Pakwach, via Gulu, has raised much hope and expectations about growing cargo volumes being shifted from the road to the rail […]
Faltering tourism sector knocks point 8 percent off growth forecasts in Kenya
KENYA GOVERNMENT FINALLY ADMITS THAT TOURISM DOWNTURN IMPACTS ON GROWTH (Posted 14th September 2014) When Kenya’s Treasury Secretary earlier this week revised the country’s growth forecasts from 5.8 percent to 5 percent for 2014, it was for the first time that a senior government official actually owned up and acknowledged that the faltering tourism industry […]
Fusion Night, 62nd KCB Safari Rally, Open Qorner With Tazim Elkington & TRM Art & Crafts Fair
If you are in Kenya, got some time to spare and are not quite sure where to go and what to do, the weekly KenyaBuzz has all the hot tips how to make a visit more interesting Having trouble viewing this email? Click here September 12th – 18th Click here for more Maisha MagicChannel Launch […]
First half arrival figures for Kenya ‘disappointing’
HALF YEAR ARRIVAL FIGURES DOWN BY DEEP DOUBLE DIGITS IN KENYA (Posted 08th September 2014) The figures released in Nairobi by the national bureau of statistics make for stark reading, as it confirms a trend which the private sector vocally defended was true while at least sections of the public sector tried to play down […]
More flights announced for Lokichar already
MORE CONNECTIONS TO LOKICHAR AS SAFARILINK COMMENCES FLIGHTS IN 10 DAYS (Posted 29th August 2014) Safarilink, Kenya’s premier safari airline, will add flights to Lokichar effective 08th September. An announcement received from the airline informs their clients and public at large that the flight will leave Wilson Airport and then route via Lokichar to Lodwar, […]
Two crashes – very different outcomes
TWO WALK AWAY FROM LIGHT AIRCRAFT CRASH IN KENYA WHILE FOUR ARE NOT SO LUCKY IN CONGO CRASH (Posted 28th August 2014) A privately owned light aircraft crashed earlier in the week when taking off from Manda Island / Lamu when it apparently developed mechanical problems in the phase immediately after leaving the ground. The […]
Two steps forward and then three back ? Kenya’s coast’ dilemma !
SECURITY CONCERNS HAVE TUI HOLLAND CANCEL KENYA HOLIDAYS (Posted 08th June 2014) ‘It is like going forward two steps and then sliding back three’ commented a regular source from the Kenya coast when news broke that TUI Holland / Arkefly were suspending their Kenya programme until further notice over expressed security concerns for their tourists […]
The Italians return to Malindi and Watamu as charter flights resume
MERIDIANA RESUMES CHARTER FLIGHTS FROM ITALY (Posted 30th July 2014) The resumption of charter flights from Italy, following the end of the low season, has already boosted the fortunes of several resorts and hotels at the Kenya coast, mainly in Malindi and the Watamu area which are heavily frequented by Italian tourists and are the […]
Kenya’s tourism stakeholders swift to react to wrong data peddled
SUNSHINE STATEMENTS PROMPT INSTANT DISSENT FROM LEADING KENYAN TOURISM STAKEHOLDERS (Posted 26th July 2014) Figures floated by Kenyan government sources yesterday of a downturn in tourism fortunes by a mere 4 percent prompted swift and unusually harsh and candid responses from leading stakeholders, with Serena Hotels’ Director of Sales and Marketing Ms. Rosemary Mugambi arguably […]
Another tourist shot and killed in Mombasa’s old town
GERMAN TOURIST SHOT DEAD IN MOMBASA’S OLD TOWN (Posted 25th July 2014) Kenya’s coastal tourism fraternity is reeling from news that last evening, around 17.30 hrs East African time, was a German female tourist shot dead in the old town of Mombasa, while her companion was injured and taken to a local hospital for emergency […]
Kenya loses two more rhinos
TWO MORE RHINOS DEAD IN POACHING INCIDENT ON OL PEJETA (Posted 23rd July 2014) The award winning Ol Pejeta Conservancy has a few days ago lost two rhinos, one 8 year old female Eastern Black named Malkia and her recently born calf which was yet to be named. The female was attacked and shot by […]
KTB seeks new avenues to promote Kenya
KENYA TOURISM BOARD TO USE KEY LOCAL EVENTS TO PROMOTE TRAVEL (Posted 15th July 2014) Kenya’s tourism marketing will now add a new dimension by tapping into key events hosted in the country, be they of a local or international nature, and use those as a platform to promote travel, both domestic as well as […]
Zambia and Tanzania commit to future of TAZARA Railways
TAZARA GETS 80 MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT BOOST (Posted 10th July 2014) The Tanzanian and Zambian government have agreed to inject a further 80 million US Dollars in the TAZARA railway line, which is currently also receiving added support from China, which constructed the line some 4 decades ago to link Zambia with a reliable rail […]
Growing challenges beset Kenya’s coastal tourism industry
THE AIR IS GETTING THINNER FOR KENYA’S TOURISM MARKETERS (Posted 07th July 2014) The challenges are mounting for Kenya’s tourism fraternity to put on a brave face to yet more reports of killings in the wider Lamu County, where in a spate of attacks dozens of people were killed in recent weeks, the latest incidents […]
The survival of the African Heritage House hangs by a thread
AFRICAN HERITAGE HOUSE UNDER THREAT OF DEMOLITION (Posted 03rd July 2014) A few days ago did one of my friends from Kenya, Emma Too – recently applauded here for her single handed effort to beautify sections of the Mombasa CBD – alert me to the going on’s about one of Kenya’s greatest architectural treasures, the […]
Read the latest safety update from KTF
KENYA TOURISM FEDERATION ISSUES THEIR LATEST SAFETY UPDATE (Posted 25th June 2014) Start quote: KTF DESTINATION UPDATE 24TH JUNE 2014 Following the unfortunate events that took place in Mpeketoni in mainland Lamu, the Government has embarked on increasing security in the region. The affected communities have and continue to receive support from the Government, Kenyans […]
#WhyILoveKenya – Reflections by Aleema Noormohamed
This is one of the finest examples yet I have come across from Kenyans telling the world about their own reasons: #WhyILoveKenya Thanks for sharing your thoughts and photographs with the world Aleema! Why I love Kenya Posted by Porini Camps in Travel & Lifestyle Posted: June 23, 2014 The sun rises in a cloudless […]
Kenya’s Tamarind Group eyes further expansion
TAMARIND GROUP ANNOUNCES EXPANSION INTO HOTEL MANAGEMENT (Posted 17th June 2014) Kenya’s Tamarind Group, risen to fame over the decades for operating some of the finest surf and turf restaurants in the region if not the continent – the company owns and operates the Tamarind Mombasa, the Tamarind Nairobi, the Carnivore Nairobi and the Tamarind […]
Kenya’s private sector responds to inaccuracies in reporting about Mpeketoni attack
Kenya’s private sector, at least in one on one conversations since morning, have taken exception about the at times deliberately misleading statements put out by international media organizations, which have through placement on make shift maps and by insinuation all but suggested that the Mpeketoni attack took place at or near by a tourism centre […]
Kenya’s tourism guru Jake Grieves-Cook reacts to misleading international media reports
The correct version of the attack on Mpeketoni in regard of events, locations and their context are described on my blog, with postings starting at 00.39 hrs last night and continuing throughout the morning. Sections of the international media have blatantly disregarded some of the facts put to them, vis a vis location, the fact […]
Remember the ‘Choices have Consequences’ talk by Western powers?
CHOICES HAVE CONSEQUENCES – BOTH WAYS (Posted 18th May 2014) When Western powers, ahead of Kenya’s general and presidential elections last year harped on about ‘Choices have Consequences’ few could fathom the full extent of what Kenya’s supposed Western friends had in store for the country. While publicly eating humble pie and trying to make […]
Kenya once again in British cross hairs with latest anti travel advisory
DOES BRITAIN USE ANTI TRAVEL ADVISORIES TO PUNISH KENYA OVER TIES WITH CHINA? (Posted 15th May 2015) The latest anti travel advisories Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued against travel to and within Kenya were received with a mix of anger, outrage, disappointment and outright dismissal as ‘increasingly inconsequential’ after the Brits had issued […]
Tourism Tattler : Newsletter – May 2014
The latest from the Tourism Tattler of May 2014 WEBSITE FEATURES NEWS CONTACT US ONLINE FORWARD MAY TOURISM UPDATE The Cover Story for our May edition looks at Adventure Tourism (page 05), while feature editorials include Botswana as a RETOSA Transfrontier Conservation Area (pages 16 – 17), Kenya’s Lamu Island – where the locals have […]
Karibuni Kenya
ABOUT KENYA AND WHY VISITING NOW IS THE BEST TIME (Posted 07th May 2014) Kenya is presently in the news but of course for all the wrong reasons and, after yet another week spent in that country, travelling up and down, meeting tourism and aviation stakeholders and observing the mood of not just those in […]
Tourism crisis committee gets legal status after gazette notice published
KENYA ‘GAZETTES’ FUNCTIONS AND MEMBERS OF TOURISM RECOVERY COMMITTEE (29th April 2014) The recently announced tourism recovery committee is now a legal reality after the Kenya government gazetted its functions, life span and membership. Chaired by Principal Secretary Tourism Ibrahim Mohamed will the committee serve for 2 years, effective 17th of April and will have […]
Cost hoteliers give the thumbs down to government for failure to come to their rescue
RESORT CLOSURES DEAL BLOW TO GOVERNMENT AS REALITY OVERTAKES SUNSHINE SPEECHES (Posted 23rd April 2014) ‘I don’t want to sound cynical but this is what we told government it would happen. What they gave us was speeches far from the reality on the ground and now it has happened. Let’s see what they do now […]
Head To The Kenya Coast This Easter
For those wanting to get away over Easter, EatOut suggests to visit the Kenya coast where space is to be had and good deals are available for visitors from upcountry and from across Eastern Africa. And with Air Uganda flying from Entebbe and RwandAir flying from Kigali and Kenya Airways flying from across the region, […]
Mwambani port plans would spell the end of the Coelacanth habitat
CONSERVATIONISTS RESPOND WITH ANGER AND DERISION TO KIKWETE STATEMENT ON MWAMBANI PORT (Posted 30th March 2014) ‘He is just another wolf in sheepskin and our environment and conservation of natural, wildlife and marine resources is his prey’ blasted a regular conservation source from Arusha, understandably on condition of strictest anonymity, following news that Tanzania’s President […]
ehotelier report on tourism at the Kenya coast makes grim reading
ehotelier one of the world’s leading e-publications for the hospitality industry, has yesterday published an article about Kenya’s coastal tourism being in dire straits – nothing new of course for my regular readers as they have been hearing this from before the general elections last year until more recently. The remaining doubting Thomases may however […]
