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  • 50th Carthage International Festival,

    TUNISIA, 2014/07/10 Some 52 artists from Tunisia, Egypt and Indonesia will take part in the 50th Carthage International Festival, scheduled for 10-16 July, PANA learnt Sunday from organizers. Many plays will be performed, including the 'Message de Paix' which will be presented on 12 July in the theater of Carthage, organizers said, adding “Message de Paix' is a play that brings together artists from various nationalities and is intended to be a message of love, peace and tolerance among religions. It will be marked by spiritual and Sufi songs from both the Islamic and Coptic heritage.'
  • Crucial tourism road in Rwanda making progres

    RWANDA, 2014/06/02 Karim Gisagara, one of the major brains behind the launch of the Congo Nile Trail three years ago, yesterday reported that some 60 kilometers of the new road, which will from presently on connect all 227 kilometers of the trail between Kamembe (Rusizi) via Kibuye (Karongi) to Gisenyi (Rubavu) have been completed while work on the other sections is ongoing. In late November last year, the Rwandan Senate took issue with the slow pace of evolution on this crucial road, which not only connects the two ends of Lake Kivu with each other for the relieve of local transport and improved trade but is thought to be a crucial tourism road.
  • Kenya's tourist numbers down 15 %

    KENYA, 2014/06/02 The number of tourists dropped by 15 % last year compared to 2012, Tourism Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie has said. Ms Kandie said last year, the country received 1.499 million tourists while in 2012 a total of 1.780 million tourists visited the country. She blamed the decrease on part other factors terrorism and the unfriendly travel advisories. The decline, she said, saw a drop in revenue collection, saying last year the industry fetched Sh93.97 billion compared to Sh96.02 billion in 2012.
  • The Hon. Minister of Tourism and Arts Jean Kapata arrives tomorrow in Spain,

    SPAIN, 2014/06/02 The Hon. Minister of Tourism and Arts Jean Kapata arrives tomorrow, June 3, 2014, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, to attend the UNWTO (UN World Tourism Organization) 98TH Executive Council on invitation by UNWTO Secretary General Dr. Taleb Rifai. The Hon. Minister and her delegation will as well attend the UNWTO Seminar on Public-Private Partnerships, “Tangible and Intangible Heritage and Innovative Tourism Products,” in collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Cities of Spain. The Executive Council is UNWTO's governing board, responsible for ensuring that the ‎organization carries out its work and adheres to its budget. It meets at least twice a year and is ‎composed of members elected by the General Assembly in a ratio of one for each ‎five Full Members.
  • Brazil plans to help Mozambique to promote the West African country’s tourism potential

    BRAZIL, 2014/05/11 Brazil plans to help Mozambique to promote the West African country’s tourism potential to foreign nations, inclunding to attract potential investors, the Brazilian Tourism Institute (Embratur) said. At the end of a conference at Embratur’s headquarters, the tourism and cultural attaché to the Mozambican embassy, Romualdo Lodino do Carmo Johnam, said that Mozambique appreciated the help offered by Embratur to develop the tourism industry. “Embratur may as well help us to contact entities and groups available to invest in Mozambican tourism,” said Lodino. Under the terms agreed at the conference, technical staff from Embratur will give a talk to Embassy staff to explain how Brazil promotes its tourism destinations to international markets.
  • Tunisia is working against the clock to salvage its 2014 tourist season next three turbulent years

    TUNISIA, 2014/03/24 Tunisia is working against the clock to salvage its 2014 tourist season next three turbulent years, by revamping the country’s image — with the help of online media and a few Star Wars characters. “To change a country from one that is relatively inexpensive to a top-end tourist destination will take 10 or 15 years,’’ said Amel Karboul, Tunisia’s new tourism minister. “But to change the image of a country from one that’s cheap to one that is ‘fun’ can be done much additional quickly, and that’s a priority for us,’’ she said, referring to perceptions of Tunisia as a budget holiday destination. The North African country hopes to welcome seven million tourists this year, a slight increase on the 6.9 million who visited in 2010 before the revolution that ousted a decades-old dictatorship and unleashed outbreaks of Islamist violence that damaged Tunisia’s reputation.
  • Tourism accounted for 3.8% of the Congolese Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

    CONGO BRAZZAVILLE, 2014/03/22 Tourism accounted for 3.8% of the Congolese Gross Domestic Product (GDP), local mdia reported Wednesday, quoting a statement from the World Tourism and Transports Council (WTTC). Congo’s GDP was estimated at US$14.8 billion last year, or additional than US$3,000 per inhabitant. WTTC said that tourism had generated riches within the Congolese people next creating 30,614 jobs. WTTC reports that the year 2014 forcasts good perspectives for Congo.
  • Azerbaijan discusses tourism in Baku with Seychelles Founding president

    AZERBAIJAN, 2014/03/18 “Citizens of Azerbaijan interested to run away from the winter cold and discover a great resort destination, citizens of Azerbaijan interested to visit a small but determined Country committed to remain on the move, should make it a point to visit the Seychelles.” These were the concluding words of Seychelles founding President Sir James R. Mancham as he addressed members of the Youth Club of Azerbaijan Ruling Party – The New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) on the theme “The World Today and Tomorrow” at the headquarters of the Party in the capital city of Baku. The former President had arrived in Baku a day before for a three-day visit as guest of The New Azerbaijan Party. He was met on arrival at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport by Professor the Honourable, Asaf Hajiyev MP – chief of the International Affairs Department of the NAP, who accompanied him to the Hilton Baku Hotel overlooking the Caspian Sea. That evening (Thursday 13th March), Mr Mancham was honoured by a dinner at Villa Petrolia in the white city of Baku by Dr. Togrul A. Bagirov of the Baku Nobel Heritage Fund which has recently built the initial Nobel Brothers Home Museum, outside Sweden and which itself is annexed to the elite Baku Nobel Oil Club. It is to be noted that Alfred Nobel – inventor of the “Dynamite” and who subsequently founded the Nobel Peace Prize, was with his brother, Immanuel, the pioneers of the modern oil and petrol industry, which began in nowhere else but Azerbaijan.
  • Travel is number two on Facebook’s most shared posts inventory globally

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2014/03/18 Travel is number two on Facebook’s most shared posts inventory globally just next “adding a relationship, getting married or engaged” and it would seem that youth are driving a worldwide travel boom that continues to shape accommodation and booking trends. According to the ITB World Travel Trends Statement 2013/2014, youth travel is said to be expanding at 9% per annum globally compared with just 2% for the general people. YOUTH TRAVEL GROWTH IN CAPE TOWN
  • Tourists to hit 1 million mark by 2018 in Mauritius

    MAURITIUS, 2014/03/16 Smoothening in occupancy rates is expected over the estimate period of 2014-2018, although occupancy rates have declined over the completed 2 years, in the backdrop of excessive room supply. A statement recently released by international market research firm ‘Research and Markets’ shows only marginal increase in domestic tourist volumes in Mauritius, which are expected to rise at a Compound Annual Increase Rate (CAGR) of 0.31% over the five-year estimate period, to reach 1 million by 2018. Titled ‘Travel and Tourism in Mauritius to 2018’, the statement observes that the tourism industry has developed into a major pillar of economic development in Mauritius, which is however, increasingly feeling the heat of intense competition in the international tourism industry.