'More Hotels, Better Infrastructure Will Beat Down Prices'

By Jimoh Babatunde [Lagos-Nigeria]

The coming of more hotel chains into Nigeria will not only raise the bar in terms of standard, but will also push down the cost of hotel rooms in the country. For the General Manager of Southern Sun Ikoyi hotel, Mr. Mark Loxley, once there is competition in the market, improve infrastructure and wel ...

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Tanzania Tourist Board Say No To The Opening Of Kenyan Entry Point

By www.eturbonews.com

Tanzania’s official tourism institution, the Tanzania Tourist Board (TBT), has resounded no to Kenyan tourist business umbrella organization, Kenya Association of Tour Operators (KATO) over the opening of the controversial tourist entry point of Bologonja in Serengeti National Park. Tourism offic ...

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Gambia Hits Nigeria For Akwaaba With Funfair

By Wale Olapade

Following the successful completion of The Gambia’s sales blitz in Nigeria early this year, coupled with its efforts to boost the volume of sub-regional tourism, The Gambia tourism fraternity will attend the Akwaaba Travel Market. (Oct 24-26th 2009) in Nigeria. The country's agencies that will p ...

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Arik Air Appoints New Managing Director

By Bridget Obi [London-Uk]

Arik Air, Nigeria's leading commercial airline, today announced that it has appointed Mr. Jason Holt as its new managing director, effective Monday, October 19, 2009. Mr Holt comes from Arik Air's London office where, for the past 18 months, he has worked as a consultant and advisor supporting the a ...

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Sunburn Yacht: Lagos Assembly Summons Commissioners, Others

By Lucky Onoriode George

Lagos State House of Assembly has summoned the Commissioners for Tourism and Inter-governmental Relations; Budget and Economic Planning; Finance and Justice, Tokunbo Afikuyomi, Ben Akabueze, Rotimi Oyekan and Supo Sasore to appear before it to clarify grey areas in the procurement of a Sunburn Yacht ...

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Bellview Looses IATA Membership

By Pearl Ngwama [Lagos-Nigeria]

Bellview Airlines, one of Nigeria’s most trusted and reliable airlines in the past last weekend lost its International Air Transport Association (IATA) membership having stopped flight operations for about two months now. According to a letter from IATA to its accredited airlines and travel agent ...

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US Nurse's Aide Becomes Uganda King

By www.telegraph.co.uk

A man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in Maryland and Pennsylvania has been crowned as a king in Uganda. For years, as Charles Wesley Mumbere cared for the elderly and sick, none of his colleagues suspected that he had inherited a royal title in his African homeland when he was just 13. Bu ...

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Want Indian Tourists? Woo Bollywood

By www.indiatimes.com

Want to net Indian tourists? Woo Shah Rukh Khan or Amitabh Bachchan. It’s a simple formula that several foreign countries seem to be following to boost tourism. In a first, Khan has just been signed on by the Korean Tourism Organisation as its cultural ambassador to promote tourism as well as to ...

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Ghana Employs 10,000 Youth To Clean Beaches

By Kwame Debrah [Accra-Ghana]

Eco Brigade is a project to clean Ghana’s beaches and also to help with cleaning of potential oil spillage that may come from the activities of oil exploiration along Ghana’s Western shores. Eco Brigade — which is formed on the concept of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s [Ghana’s first president] Work ...

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Nigerian Tourism Minister Presents Atigbi’s Award To Family

By Lucky Onoriode George [Abuja, Nigeria]

The Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Senator Bello Gada has presented the award the United Nations World Tourism Organisation [UNWTO] presented to late Ignatius Amaduwa Atigbi, former head of Nigeria’s tourism agency and chairman of Africa Travel Commission who proposed the ide ...

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