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: 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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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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Samuel Alabi, HOPSEA President |
Nigeria: Moves To Rejuvenate Hospitality Sector
Mary Ekah
As part of efforts to rejuvenate the hospitality sector, the Hotel and Personal Services Employers' Association of Nigeria [HOPSEA] is set to titillate Nigerians with its first ever special event since it came into existence over 30 years ago. Though the association has been in existence for this ...
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo |
Nigeria: Black Race, Most Battered In The World - OBJ
By Tunde Oyekola
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has taken a swipe at the globalisation campaign of the Western world, saying that the black race, being the most battered in the world, is already globalised and so does not need the Western world to make it understand the concept of globalisation. Chief Obasanj ...
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Dr Harold Demuren, NCAA Boss |
US Grants Nigeria Highest Air Safety Rating
By www.thisdayonline.com
Some good news came the way of Nigeria’s aviation industry yesterday as the country attained the United States Federal Aviation Admi-nistration [FAA] International Aviation Safety Assessment [IASA] certification, known as Category 1 Status. With this status, Nigeria’s air safety ratin ...
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Delegates And Some Members Of 2010 Abuja Carnival Committee |
Abuja Carnival Holds Workshop In Two Geo-political Zones
By Adedoyin Olalekan Owobamirin
The 2010 Abuja Carnival Management Committee has concluded a strategic workshop in two geo-political zones of the country with the view to improving the quality and the content of this year’s edition holding from November 27-30, 2010. The workshops held in the South west and South south wer ...
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Tanzania: Travel Agents Body Urges Aggressive Promotion
By www.dailynews.co.tz
In a move designed to improve services, income generation and quality of tourism industry in Tanzania, the Tanzania Society of Travel Agents [TASOTA] has outlined four priority areas to be undertaken within two years. Speaking in Dar es Salaam on Thursday, the newly elected TASOTA chairman, Musta ...
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Robert Mugabe, Zimababwe President |
Zimbabwe: Mugabe The Major Deterrent To Tourists
By www.theindependent.co.zw
Tourism was initially intended to be a major source of revenue for Zimbabwe during the World Cup, but negative press took its toll on the country's ability to draw tourists. Those who chose to travel around Africa before or after the Cup seemed to develop the uncanny ability to avoid Zimbabwe by ...
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