TINAPA Resort Water Park, Calabar, Nigeria |
Nigeria: 'Why Tour Operators Are Not Packaging Country'
By Jimoh Babatunde [Lagos-Nigeria]
Trevor Ward is an international hospitality consultant and Managing Partner of W Hospitality Group, specialists in advisory services to the hospitality industry, based in Lagos, in this interview with Jimoh Babatunde, he shares his opinions on the current expansi ...
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Prince Ernst August Of Hanover, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II Cousin |
Prince Ernst August Of Hanover, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II Cousin Fined Over Kenya Assault
By www.bbc.co.uk
A German court has fined Princess Caroline of Monaco's husband 200,000 euros [£181,200; $270,000] for assaulting a hotelier in Kenya in 2000. Prince Ernst August of Hanover, 56, was found guilty at an earlier trial in 2004 of causing serious bodily harm and was fined 445,000 euros. But he w ...
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BA Boss, Willie Walsh |
British Airways Cabin Crew Offer To Take Pay Cut
By Ray Massey [London]
Hopes of a deal in the British Airways cabin crew dispute were rising last night as the unions offered to take a pay cut. The Unite union and its cabin crew branch put forward a cost-saving plan that would involve taking a 3.5 per cent pay cut and freezing salaries for two years. However, BA boss ...
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Gambian President, Yaya Jame |
Gambia: Tourism Authority Prepares for ATA Congress
By www.foroyaa.gm
The Gambia Tourism Authority [GTA], in collaboration with the Gambia Hotel Association [GHA], is preparing for the forthcoming 35th Annual Congress of the Africa Travel Agency [ATA] to be held in the Gambia in May 2010. It is in this regard that a business forum was held at the Kairaba Beach Hote ...
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Jacob Zuma, South African President |
South Africa: Ten Million Tourists Expected This Year
By www.buanews.gov.za
A record 10 million tourists are expected to pass through South Africa's ports of entry this year, says Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk. This is 500 000 arrivals more than the 9.5 million who visited the country in 2008. With just 100 days to go to the kick off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup ...
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African Migrants On The Sea |
The Other Side Of Migration: Africans' Future In Italy
By www.afronline.org
The strike is over. Flags have come down and the participants are back home. Presently, there are about 300,000 all over Italy, 2,000 in the centre of Milan, thousands more in France. After firing Europe up with demonstrations of workers on its streets, the recently born 'Yellow Movement' is gear ...
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Jacob Zuma, Prince Phillip, The Queen And Tobeka Madiba Zuma |
Jacob Zuma Brand British As Old Fashioned Imperialists
By www.dailymail.co.uk
As a polygamist who has fathered more than 20 children, both in and out of wedlock, he was always going to cause a stir on his inaugural state visit. Jacob Zuma added fuel to the fire yesterday by branding the British as old fashioned imperialists - only hours before he was officially greeted by ...
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United Airlines Plane |
United Airlines To Begin Flights To Africa
By www.eturbonews.com
United Airlines announced the schedule for the airline’s first-ever nonstop service to the African continent, with once-daily service linking Washington with Accra, the capital of Ghana, beginning June 20. United 990 departs Washington Dulles International Airport at 10:10 pm, arriving at K ...
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TPOC Logo |
Heritage Tourism Suppliers Invited To Exhibit At Travel Professionals Of Colour Conference And Trade
By www.tpoc.org
Travel Professionals who sell heritage tourism products and have the ear of millions of African American and other Minority travellers, will convene in Nassau, Bahamas, on April 22-25, 2010 for their eighth annual conference and trade show. Statistics show that US$90 billion plus is spent annuall ...
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Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General |
UN Official Accuses Egypt of Killing Unarmed Migrants
By www.reuters.com
Worried by incessant killings, the United Nations' human rights chief has asked Egypt to stop shooting unarmed African migrants trying to enter Israel via the Sinai Desert and said 60 of them had been killed since July 2007. Navi Pillay, United Nations [UN]High Commissioner for Human Rights, acco ...
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