Ethiopian Airlines, has announced that it will start its services to Jakarta, Indonesia, in June 2017 using the ultra-modern Boeing 787-800.Jakarta is Indonesia’s economic, cultural and polit…
Crocodile farm suspends tours following guide’s death
Johan Burger, a guide at Le Bonheur Crocodile Farm in Paarl, Western Cape, died in an accident in one of the farm’s crocodile ponds on January 14.Le Bonheur has suspended its croc pond tours …
Rwanda sets ambitious MICE targets
Rwanda aims to earn $150 million per year from the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) sector, boosting its tourism earnings.Tourism earned the Rwandan economy $340 million in …
Malawian reserve welcomes record numbers of tourists
The restored Majete Wildlife Reserve in south-western Malawi last year welcomed 7 000 tourists, contributing to $400 000 in gross revenue, which assists the management and conservation of the reser…
Marriott welcomes Sheraton Annaba to Algeria
Marriott International has further expanded in Algeria with the opening of its seventh hotel in the country, Sheraton Annaba.The company already operates six hotels in Algeria including Constantine…
Opinion: The Minister of Home Affairs has done it again with new absurd visa move
According to The Monitor Minister for Tourism, Godfrey Kiwanda, said hotel owners in Busoga sub-region and the rest of Uganda had done little to improve the services rendered in the industry and th…
European carrier’s new operation to compete with the Gulf carriers
Air France KLM’s new long-haul operation, Boost, designed to compete with the Gulf airlines, will not be a low-cost model. In October, a spokesperson for Air France KLM said the group was con…
Arrivals to SA continue to climb
Overseas arrivals to South Africa are up 20% and total arrivals are up 14% year-to-date compared with the same period in 2015. This is according to the October 2016 stats released during December 2…
Zanzibar Amber Resort signs $1.6 billion project in Matemwe Village
Zanzibar-China’s MCC Overseas Company has signed a contract to build the Zanzibar Amber Resort in Matemwe Village. The resort will be one of the biggest in the East African region, say projec…
How an Economic Tourist Understands Africa’s Largest City
I’m spending six days as a tourist in Lagos, Nigeria. A lot of people seem to think that’s pretty strange.The place is not renowned for its food (one of my main interests), nor was ther…