ATTA LAUNCHES FIRST EVER AFRICA PHOTO COMPETITION
(Posted 24th January 2014)
The London based Africa Travel and Tourism Association – membership is considered quintessential for Africa’s leading hospitality and safari businesses – has announced the launch of their first ever photographic competition, featuring eye candy highlights from across the African continent. Launched earlier this week, Atta is going the way of the social media to collect votes via this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.604235596315169.1073741833.150557278349672&type=3
The competition is also ‘hashtagged’ via #attaphotonewyear for those who are keen enough to follow the event until the winners are finally unveiled on the 31st of January.
Notably, and a bit of home pride is surely not misplaced here, are two pictures from Uganda included in the 11 selected by Atta, featuring a boat in the delta of the River Nile near Lake Albert (by Marasa Africa) and a second one showing one of our prized gorillas submitted by Premier Safaris of Uganda.
The winner will be able to reach the global Atta audience through a specially arranged ‘Webinar’, allowing the showcasing of their destination and products, potentially giving added priceless exposure.
Said Atta when launching the competition: ‘We are, as always, aiming to fulfil our mission statement with this competition by creating a positive image of Africa and creating a greater awareness of Africa as a travel destination by hosting this competition on a social networking site. We hope to increase dialogue between the experts and the general public’.
Entrants and their captioned photographs are:
- 26 Sunset Avenue – Monkey’s Wedding Sunset – bringing in the new year!
- Campi Ya Kanzi – Let’s focus on the elephants; in order to save this continent.
- Flatdogs Camp – New Year always brings new life with baby elephants, baby impalas and baby birds such as these Crowned Cranes
- Great Plains Conservation – Scanning the plains for the next wave of the Great Migration.
- Marasa Africa – As the sun sets on 2013 we went for a final cruise to the Delta area of Murchison Falls National Park close to Paraa Safari lodge.
- Ol Malo – Dressed in beads and Kikoys so as to fit in, two young guests walk out with their guide Hussein to experience the walk that the Samburu school children make to school each day through the African bush.
- Premier Safaris – A vulnerable gorilla over the festive period, looking towards conservation in 2014.
- To Escape To – A New Year a New Legacy – Fulfilling the Mandela Dream.
- Turtle Bay Lodge – Turtle Bay plans to host more African themed weddings in 2014, supported by a group from the iconic Maasai tribe
- Wayo Africa – On a recent safari in the Serengeti guests Tim and Sue were joined in the Serengeti by a pride of lions with a few adult cubs who also choose to move in to camp for the season!
- Zambezi Safari and Travel Company – Its detox time – we’re eating the green stuff!
All the best to all the participants who have entered their favourite picture in this inaugural event, which is expected to grow into one of Africa’s prime events in coming years as more and more participants are expected to participate once they realize there is another platform now where to showcase themselves. Visit www.atta.travel for more information about the association, how to join and what benefits members can expect.
