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Air Senegal intensifies its offer to Spain
With this decision, the Senegalese national company intends to satisfy the request consisting in facilitating the important movements of passengers during the holiday period. For the next summer season, Air Senegal is increasing its flight frequencies to Spain. From June 21, the Senegalese carrier will introduce an additional flight on … read more
Emirates Airlines now selling seats to Jamaica
In a historic first for Jamaica and the Caribbean, Emirates Airlines is now selling seats to Jamaica. This arrangement opens gateways from the Middle East, Asia and Africa to Jamaica and the rest of the region.
Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett made the announcement today following high-level meetings between Jamaica’s… read more
Virgin Voyages’ Valiant Lady arrives in new Mediterranean homeport
Virgin Voyages’ second lady ship, Valiant Lady, sheded her winter wardrobe and headed to her sunny new Mediterranean homeport of Port de Barcelona.
Eternally fashionable Barcelona – famed for its lively nightlife, sweeping architecture and world-class cuisine – will be the second homeport after Miami for the awar… read more
South African Tourism forging closer ties with West Africa tour operators & agents
South African Tourism (SAT) is deepening its engagements with tour operators and travel agents in West Africa; mainly from Ghana and Nigeria.
Ghana and Nigeria have traditionally among some of the highest countries to drive tourism traffic to South Africa each year.
SAT through its West Africa regional office ensured that well over 5… read more
The renovated Kumasi airport will be operational earlier than planned in August 2022
Ghana's goal is to become a major air hub in sub-Saharan Africa. To achieve this, the West African country has undertaken a vast plan to modernise its main international airports.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Kumasi International Airport could be operational by August this year and open for international fligh… read more
Emirates & Mauritius to jointly promote tourism to Indian Ocean destination
Emirates Airline signed another agreement with a tourist authority to jointly promote travel—this time to the Indian Ocean island Mauritius.
Emirates plans to increase its current service between Dubai (DXB) and Mauritius (MRU), located east of Madagascar, from 9X-weekly to 2X-daily fr… read more
Majority of Accra’s planned hotel developments on hold
While it seems that the total stock of internationally branded hotels in Accra is set to almost double, only 14% of the pipeline projects are actively under construction as many have been stalled due to the impact of the pandemic and currency depreciation, according to the Accra Development Pipeline Report by pan-African real estate data company… read more
New dawn for Tanzania Tourism through premier documentary
The Royal Tour, Tanzania’s official tourism campaign, was launched after a trip that President Samia Suluhu took to the US. A documentary by the same name was launched to publicise the country’s tourism and investment opportunities.
The tourism campaign idea was mooted by Tanzanians living in the US. They suggested it to reva… read more
USA: Delta Air Lines finally gets approval for South Africa triangle route
Major US airline Delta Air Lines's application to fly a triangular route between Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta in … read more
Bamako reduces the chances of Air Sahel ever taking to the air
Wanted by the five members of the G5 Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad), the project to create the Air Sahel community airline is no longer in a hurry. In the making since 2015, its fate now seems to be in the past. And the recent friction between Bamako and the other members make us fear for its future, which is very sim… read more
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