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Preparations for the 2018 edition of the annual Umhlanga Festival, popularly known as the Reed Dance are in earnest in the Kingdom of Eswatini. Umhlanga is the best known cultural event from Eswatini, and in this eight-day ceremony, young virgin girls cut reeds, and present them to the Queen Mother (Indlovukazi) – ostensibly to repair the windbreak around her royal…
Accra, Ghana: June 22, 2018… The 4th edition of Accra Weizo, an annual B2B travel, tourism & hospitality industry trade show opened with a bang on June 22, 2018 at the La-Palm Royal Beach Resort in Accra, Ghana. Shortly after a brisk tea & coffee breakfast participants and guests settled in for the opening session of…
With the 4th Accra Weizo about a month away, the organisers have called on the general public to send in their nominees for the Balafon West Africa Travel Awards. Accra Weizo was launched four years ago with the vision to turn West Africa with its 15 countries and 380 million people into a Domestic Tourism Destination. Twenty five 25 speakers drawn from…
PRESS RELEASE: MY FAREWELL NOTE ON LEAVING AFRO TOURISM W/A LTD Lagos, Nigeria. June 5, 2018 A few days after winning an unprecedented treble of the UEFA Champions’ League as coach of the Los Merengues, former French footballer and World Cup winner, Zinedine Zidane shook the sporting world by announcing his resignation. It was totally…
Addis Ababa, 18 May 2018 Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, is pleased to announce that it will launch thrice weekly flights to Jakarta, Indonesia as of July 17, 2018. Member of the G-20, Indonesia, is the world’s 4th most populous nation and 10th largest economy in the…
Air Seychelles, the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles, has formed a new partnership with Booking.com, one of the largest travel e-commerce companies in the world, to provide customers with accommodation options via airseychelles.com. Booking.com will enable guests travelling with Air Seychelles or other airlines to book a selection of incredible accommodations ranging from apartments, vacation homes,…
My attention have been drawn to a widely Circulating petition signed by 5 members of NATOP alleging irregularities in the affairs of NATOP. I have been called by a top Government official someone I respect to withhold any further escalation of the issue until it is resolved. He has asked for Calmness So I will…
Conceived by the Zanzibar Minister of Information, Tourism and Antiquities, Mr. Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, the upcoming Zanzibar Tourism Show has been tagged as “the ultimate business event for the domestic and international tourism industry,” in the region. More than 150 exhibitors, international and inbound tour operators, from Tanzania and East Africa are expected to participate at the first edition of…
With less than twenty (20) days to the new Karibu-KILIFair, organisers of the event have announced a press conference which will take place at Salinero Hotel on May 19, 2018. The aim of this media briefing is to formally present the new, bigger and better KARIBU-KILIFAIR, the “United Tourism Fairs of Tanzania” to the press and media. TATO (organisers of Karibu…
By Abdallah Msuya Zanzibar — LOOKING to promote the Zanzibar tourism sector, the Ministry of Information, Tourism and Antiquities has come up with the ‘Zanzibar Tourism Show’ that will be held for the first time in October, this year. The minister, Mr Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, said the inaugural event would be staged at the former House of Representatives from October 17…
