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UK government secret memo orders officials to stop deportation of bogus foreign students
Despite popular expectation that their government should be tough on immigrants and the consistence hard-line position of Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary earlier position to toughen the migrant system, immigration officers have been ordered to stop deporting foreign students who overstay their visas. A leaked memo obtained by the Daily Mail suggests they are not regarded as a high enough priority and the paper went further to say that secret edict makes a mockery of the United Kingdom Government claims to be running a "robust" immigration system.
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L-R: Okoria Uguru, Rok Klancnik, Nse Obong Okon Ekong and Gabriel Oduri Nigerian journalists dung Africa TourCom in Mali 2006
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Tourcom to Switch to More Focused Approach
UNWTO’s successful Tourcom conferences are to take on a more specific focus following the last large-scale regional event for Eastern Europe and Central Asia held in Tbilisi, Georgia on September 25 and 26. The series of seminars aimed at helping Member States to improve their marketing
and communications skills will be geared in future to “the needs of smaller groups of like-minded countries,”
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Francesco Frangialli, Secretary General, United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
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Ban Ki-Moon Praises Tourism’s Role in Helping Poorer Countries
Kenya’s biggest tourism competitors in Africa are reaping big from the political unrest that has hit the country. The competitors include Tanzania, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa. Most of the tourists who have cancelled their visits to Kenya have booked into these countries that offer similar products. Concerns are now rife in the industry that it may be very hard to reverse the gains which the competitors are making if the situation in the country is not resolved soon.
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