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  • Kenya tourism growth from China in 2015

    CHINA, 2015/10/28 The introduction of direct flights to Kenya and the increased marketing of Nairobi as a tourist destination across China is a positive trend for the increase of Chinese tourists to the East Africa country, tourism markets said recently. Kenya Tourist Board (KTB) Managing Director Muriithi Ndegwa said Kenyan tour marketers based in China and local Chinese tour operators are receiving increased requests from Chinese tourists seeking to visit the world famous Masaai Mara National Park and other attraction sites in the East African country. "We have a lot of goodwill from across the world," Ndegwa told Xinhua in an exclusive interview in Nairobi ahead of a major tourism exhibition in Diani, Kenya's coastal region, which has attracted 185 major tourism marketers from around the world, inclunding 10 leading Chinese tour operators.
  • Rwanda attract global tourists

    RWANDA, 2015/09/29 Rwanda marked the 2015 World Tourism Day on Sunday by unveiling a new cultural center in Rulindo district, northern part of the country. The Rulindo Cultural Center is from presently on an extra tourist spot with a package combining cultural showcasing and community-based tourism, according to officials. The tourism day celebration is a major step in the direction to showcase various aspects of Rwanda's tourism offering beyond the gorilla, a lifetime experience, officials said.
  • Zimbabwe boasts of rich tourism resources inclunding the mighty Victoria Falls.

    CHINA, 2015/09/29 Zimbabwe's tourism minister Walter Mzembi on Wednesday revealed that his government is negotiating with Beijing to arrange visa-on-arrival for Chinese tourists to visit the southern African country. Zimbabwe boasts of rich tourism resources inclunding the mighty Victoria Falls. Mzembi told journalists and ambassadors at a tourism workshop in Harare that plans were underway to ensure that Chinese nationals will be issued visas on arrival. Currently, the Chinese must obtain their Zimbabwean visas before traveling.
  • Tunisia has been actively restoring its national image

    TUNISIA, 2015/09/29 Tunisia has been actively restoring its national image next the attack on the National Bardo Museum, attempting to revive its crucial tourism industry, local media said on Friday. The museum raid, which left 23 people dead and over 50 others injured, was the majority deadly one since Tunisia's independence from France in 1956. The Islamic National group later claimed responsibility for the attack. While Tunisian authorities were investigating on the identities of the attackers, local citizens spontaneously began mending the spotted image of the historic North African country, according to local media Tunis Times.
  • Botswana desert turned into race track

    BOTSWANA, 2015/09/29 Known for its rich diamonds resources and magnificent tourist attractions of the Okavango Delta, a lot of would at no time think motor racing would become one of the majority sought next activities of Botswana's tourism industry. The Kalahari Desert, covering most of the western part of the country, has just turned out to be a hub for off-road racing in this landlocked southern African country. This year marked a historic 30th edition of the Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000km Desert Race, the biggest off-road racing event in southern Africa, with the winner getting a ticket to the world renowned Dakar Rally. It's the wee hours of the morning and large motor engines can be heard roaring and disturbing the tranquil often experienced in the small mining town of Jwaneng, at the entrance of the vast sands of the Kalahari Desert.
  • Kenya launches online platform to woo tourists

    KENYA, 2015/09/29 The Kenyan government on Tuesday launched an online platform to woo tourists from across the globe. Trade and Tourism Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie said the makeitkenya.com website is meant to bolster the country's image as a vibrant home of warm people of diverse cultures that has an array of opportunities for investors and tourists. Kandie said the platform provides an opportunity to market the East African country as a perfect destination for tourists around the globe, and assured the world that Kenya is ready for visitors and open for businesses.
  • Discovering Tetouan and its region

    MOROCCO, 2015/09/28 Entirely renovated recently, Sofitel Tamuda Bay offers an oasis of calm and voluptuousness on one of the majority beautiful bays of the Mediterranean.
  • Mozambique’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Silva Dunduro,

    MOZAMBIQUE, 2015/09/18 Mozambique’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Silva Dunduro, explains how the country’s natural resources everybody talks about (oil, gas, etc.) will one day come to an end; but the riches of its coasts, cultural heritage and traditions will always exist. Therefore, Mozambique presently faces the challenge of increasing the contribution tourism makes to its GDP through cultural and tourist attractions that the current peace and stability environment allow. How is the work of artists and culture helping present and next generations to get to know the history and the reality of your country, and avoiding completed mistakes being repeated? The fight for independence, which started in 1964, was as well a cultural act. The soldiers forming the independence army were Mozambicans from different backgrounds, regions, colors that joined against the colonial domination. This miscegenation made that fight part of the people. Again, it was thanks to culture (cultural events) that today we are free from the suffering that lasted about 500 years.
  • Tourism is the real target of the Tunisia attacks: industry set to suffer

    TUNISIA, 2015/08/30 Vast stretches of sand were blank of people along the normally packed beaches of Sousse on Saturday. There were still a few tourists around; they had taken the entirely correct view that the place was safer presently than it has ever been in recent times, having a heavy security presence in the wake of Friday’s massacre. But even these hardy visitors said they would be gone as any minute at this time as their holiday finishes, and the gloomy hotel and restaurant owners do not expect a new wave of custom to follow this summer, or indeed anything like the same numbers for the next season either. It is perhaps surprising that there were so a lot of Western tourists around for the dreadful slaughter. They obviously had not thought that the attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis three months ago, in which 20 foreigners died, meant that they, too, were potential targets. Or perhaps they simply decided approaching despite the risks involved.
  • Zimbabwe: Unbeatable destination for inspired travel adventure

    ZIMBABWE, 2015/08/24   "All I wanted to do presently was get back to Africa. We had not left it from presently on, but at the same time as I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it by presently." - Ernest Hemingway. A sentiment shared by most who visit Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is a country with extravagant scenery and exciting activities. The country offers winding rivers for exploration and relaxing natural parks with beautiful views that vividly displays the country's efforts in wilderness conservation. Zimbabwe shares the remarkable Victoria Falls, the world's biggest waterfall, with its neighbor Zambia.