Miss Tourism Ghana Contestant |
Ghana: Beauties Contesting For Miss Tourism
By www.accra-mail.com
Twelve beauties were last Saturday selected at an audition session at the Pink Panther Hotel at Adenta in Accra to vie for the title of Ghana's Tourism Queen 2010, who will promote youth participation in the country's tourism development drive. The queen will also represent Ghana at the Miss Tour ...
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Alliance: Gaddafi And Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi |
Gaddafi Demands EU Cash To Stop Immigration Via Libya
By Nick Pisa
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is demanding £4.1billion a year from the EU to stop illegal immigration which 'threatens to turn Europe black'. Col Gaddafi made the demand as he ended his controversial two-day visit to Italy where he caused outrage in the Catholic Church by hosting tw ...
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Otunba Segun Runsewe |
National Park Service Reaffirms Partnership With NTDC
By Akin Onipede
The Nigeria National Park Service [NNPS] has reaffirmed the need to rebuild its long-standing partnership with the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation [NTDC]. The Conservator General of NNPS, Alhaji Haruna Tanko Abubakar made this position known when he paid a courtesy call to the Director G ...
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Delta Airlines Plane |
Nigerian Woman Dies On Delta Airlines’ Atlanta - Lagos Flight
By Our Correspondent
Delta Airlines on Monday said a female passenger was found dead on one of its flights from Atlanta, United States to Lagos. Delta sources said the 57-year-old passenger was accompanied by her son when she died on Monday. The Associated Press quoted the American carrier’s Corporate Communica ...
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President Obama And Wife Michelle |
Michelle Obama Turns To Nigerian Designer Duro Oluwu For Wears
By www.telegraph.co.uk
America’s First Lady Michelle Obama’s holiday wardrobe this year includes a vibrant, patchwork, folkloric dress by the London-based Nigerian designer, Duro Olowu. The dress, a funky, layered, smoc ...
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Zimbabwean-Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai |
Zimbabwe: Tourism Rakes in U.S. $350 Million
By Tendai Mugabe [Harare-Zimbabwe]
The tourism sector has raked in over US$350 million in the first half of the year and is projected to surpass the target of three million tourist arrivals before year-end. Tourism and Hospitality Industry Permanent Secretary Dr Sylvester Maunganidze told The Herald yesterday that hotel bookings h ...
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Tanzania |
Tanzania Woos British Tourists Through English Premier League
By www.eturbonews.com and Mark Msoke
In its new campaign to attract more tourists from United Kingdom, Tanzania has targeted the ongoing English Premier League to market its tourist attractive icons through digital video advertising in various British stadiums. Under such a campaign, Tanzania becomes the first African tourist ...
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The Zambezi Bridge Linking Zimbabwe To Zambia |
Zimbabwe: Zambia Mull Tourism Partnership
By www.herald.co.zw/
Zimbabwe and Zambia will pool resources to rebrand shared tourism facilities. In an interview on recently, the permanent secretaries of the tourism ministries of the two countries said they had found it better to work together than to rely on private investors. The shared facilities are mainly th ...
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Tanzania National Flag |
Tanzania: Nation Targets $1.7 Billion From Tourism
By Ally Hamisi
Tanzania forecasts it will receive one million tourists by next year [2011] and generate about US$1.7 billion if all strategies to attract tourists succeed as planned. This is a rise from 2009 when the country earned $1.2 billion from 714,367 visitors. Speaking to the East African Business Week ...
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EAC Logo |
East Africa: EAC Has Only 11 Five-Star Hotels
By www.busiweek.com
Tanzania's commercial city of Dar es Salaam has only three five-star hotels after evaluating 203 hotels in the city and the Coast region out of 339 hotels country wide. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ms Shamsa Mwangunga, named the three top class hotels as the Kilimanjaro Kempisk ...
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