Mrs. Phyllis Kandie named
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Correspondent, Africa
(eTN) - Mrs.
tourist was attempting to photograph young hippo
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Sad news is coming out of Kenya that a Chinese tourist has died in a local hospital, where she was taken last night after being attacked by a hippo while attempting to take a close-up ...
KTB wants to fund recovery tourism missions
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Sources in Nairobi have confirmed that the Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) is seeking an additional 500 million Kenya shillings (US$5.9 million) to fund a series of “recovery missions” aimed ...
Travel advisories can be relaxed with election declared valid
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Kenya’s tourism industry was swift to welcome the decision of the Supreme Court, which delivered the verdict of “validly elected” while turning down the applications of the ...
Kenya’s new president elect Uhuru Kenyatta
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - While the who’s who of Kenya’s tourism industry is wrapping up their participation in the world’s greatest tourism fair, ITB Berlin, a number of them have expressed their confidence ...
Let Peace Prevail
(eTN) – “Finally his time in tourism is coming to an end. Too much of what he did was embroiled in controversy and the things which needed doing were not done.
New hard surface runway officially opened
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) – Kenya President Mwai Kibaki yesterday formally opened the first phase of the new airport in Isiolo.
Editorial
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - The absence of substantive boards of directors at the newly-created East Africa tourism parastatals is said to be a further cause of growing dissent within the tourism industry and between ...
plead for bail
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Former Permanent Secretary Rebecca Nabutoola, former Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) CEO Dr.
Kenya tourism Minister Danson Mwaz faced with hostile private sector
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - The ruling today of the Industrial Court in favor of Muriithi Ndegwa as CEO of the Kenya Tourism Board (KTB), affirming that he indeed holds a valid 3-year contract extension as handed to ...
Industrial Court orders stay of execution until hearings
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - First feedback from London is that Kenya’s Tourism Minister looked perplexed and stunned when news was whispered in his ear that Muriithi Ndegwa, clearly now a subject to the ...
KenGen set to open spa
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - The Kenya Electricity Generating Company, in short known as KenGen, is in the process of diversifying its portfolio with the entry into the tourism industry.
Appointed to return as CEO
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - News just broke that the Head of Civil Service in Kenya, Francis Kimemia, has re-appointed Mr.
William Kibet Kiprono named
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) – News is just breaking from Nairobi that Mr. William Kibet Kiprono has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Director for Security promoted
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - The Board of Trustees of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) announced yesterday that Mr.
Crowds mob the stands
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
The Kenya Tourism Board (KTB), aka Magical Kenya, held its annual tourism exhibition last weekend, and in spite of a challenging economic environment, visitor numbers exceeded those of past years, ...
Occupancy averaging only 43 percent
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Information received by a regular source from the Kenyan coast makes stark reading, as the occupancy statistics attached to it made for an average of only 43 percent in September.
efforts to divest of shareholdings in doubt
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - A directive issued earlier this week by Kenya’s “Transition Authority” (TA), which is charged with an orderly transfer of assets to a number of new administrative entities created ...
makes surprise visit to Namanga border post
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Complaints received while on a recent visit to Kenya about the often slow and cumbersome processing of tourists, prompted the no-nonsense and hands-on Minister for Natural Resources and ...
Kenya event
Many of the world’s destinations loudly boast an opportunity for the traveler to “enter another world.” Off the shores of Northern Kenya, the island of Lamu offers this experience in its ...
United Nations Development Program and Global Environment Facility
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Information has been ascertained that the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) have set aside a joint 220 million Kenya shillings to support ...
Killian Lugwe to chair Hotel and Restaurant Authority
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
KENYA (eTN) - Killian Lugwe, best known in Kampala for heading the team which transformed the former Nile Hotel International into the Kampala Serena Hotel before being posted back to Nairobi at ...
stark reality sinks in with Kenya’s tourism industry
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - When a budget analysis was done in Kenya last Friday in a series of breakfast and lunchtime presentations by leading accounting, audit, and financial service consultancy firms, the stark ...
Tourism numbers in Kenya down
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Key stakeholders from the private and public sector in Kenya, as well as association leaders, have stood up to be counted yesterday and condemned the criminal masterminds and perpetrators ...
Minister a no-show at e-Tourism Conference
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - In an unwarranted broadside against the media and their reporting, the recently-appointed new Tourism Minister of Kenya, Dan Mwazo, has done more harm than good to his cause to promote ...
Statement issued after criminal case withdrawn
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - In a media statement issued ahead of the Easter weekend, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Corporate Communications Department finally responded with a detailed account of their own, after ...
Bound to affect tourism and travel
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - A regular source from the Kenyan coast, met only a few days ago at the e-Tourism Conference in Nairobi, was swift to make contact and get heard when he said: “We had two separate but ...
Travel consultations and booking fees goes up
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
The Kenya Association of Travel Agents has just announced that their members will charge their clients an extra US$15 equivalent for consultations and bookings made on their behalf beginning April ...
Stain on Kenya’s credibility
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - News from Nairobi was received with some incredulity when it became known that the General Manager of Eco-Tourism Kenya, a well-respected conservation and best practice organization long ...
Tourism stakeholders getting vocal
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Leading stakeholders in Kenya’s tourism industry are getting more vocal now about the government’s dragging out the announcement of an election date.
