The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has banned Nigerian passengers from transiting other airports before going to Dubai.Effective from today, only those travelling directly from Nigeria would be allowed…

In the quest to achieve the strategic objective through regional tourism and increase number of tourism’s contribution to country’s GDP and increase the number of tourists’ arriva…

Acknowledging its strong dependence on tourism, the Seychelles was the first country in Africa to launch its vaccination campaign and is racing towards achieving herd immunity. This, it believes, w…

Renovation work has started on Lemala Wildwaters Lodge, situated on a private island on the River Nile in Uganda.The lodge sustained flood damage to its restaurant and pool deck last year after the…

Lufthansa and SWISS have entered into an interline agreement with Airlink, offering passengers convenient travel connections between Southern Africa and Europe.The partnership allows Airlink passen…

With COVID-19 now excluded from general public liability by insurance companies, travel and tourism companies have lost their second line of defence. As a result, the only line of defence open to t…

Terminals T1B and T1C at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport have been closed for upgrades.Kenya Airports Authority Corporate Communications Officer, Elijah Miano, told Tourism Upda…

Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and Rwanda Chamber of Tourism (RCT) have inked an agreement with the Kenya Association of Travel Agents (KATA) and the East African Tourism Platform (EATP) to develop…

Air crashes are tragic. Every country prays it does not happen in its airspace. It is not only that lives are consumed, which is the saddest part, but also it diminishes the goodwill of the country…

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has highlighted mental wellbeing as one of the key factors that will ensure that, as the tourism sector rebuilds, it comes “back stronger and bet…