Charter Flights from Poland and Russia

Added charters heading for Mombasa amid hopes and doubts

(eTN) - Information from aviation sources in Mombasa tells a story of hope and doubts at the same time, when details become known that more charter flights, including from Poland and Russia, were ...

Open letter from the Kenyan tourism minister

The Government of Kenya is working closely with British, French and international authorities to ensure that acts of piracy; such as that committed [on October 2] on Manda Island; by Somali ...

British Foreign Office Warns Tourists After Second Kidnapping

UK warns Brits to stay away from coastal areas in Kenya

The British Government has changed its advice to tourists visiting the Kenyan coast following the kidnap of a French woman by Somali pirates.

Statement by the Minister for Tourism, Hon. Najib Balala, EGH, MP, on the Kidnapping of a French National in Manda Island

Kenya Minister's response to tourist kidnapping

October 1, 2011: The government of Kenya wishes to confirm that an elderly lady of French origin, Ms. Marie DeDieu, was abducted from a private residence in Manda Island, at 3:30 am this morning. ...

Another Foreign Tourist Abducted In Kenya

Second kidnapping of tourist shocks Kenya's tourism sector

A range of sources in Mombasa and Nairobi report that a second tourist kidnapping has taken place, this time at the Manda Bay Resort near Lamu.

The Saga of the Common Tourist Visa

Kenya Tourism Minister blasts partners over fear and suspicion

(eTN) - The meeting of the East African Community’s (EAC) sectoral council on tourism and wildlife in Mombasa ended with calls to fast-track the long overdue introduction of a common tourist ...

Pilot Hospitalized

Ultralight aircraft in Kenya crashes killing passenger

(eTN) - News has emerged from the Kenyan coast that an ultralight aircraft, apparently used for a leisure flight at the South Coast of Mombasa, had crashed upon take off yesterday morning, ...

Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency

Kenya aviation stakeholders denounce CASSOA as greedy

(eTN) - Emotions were once again running high between Kenya aviation stakeholders and the regional Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency (CASSOA), when the latter announced the ...

British Citizen killed and wife abducted

UK special forces and detectives join hunt for woman abducted in Kenya

(eTN) - Lamu and Kiwayu Island have been swarmed by the international media since the killing of a British citizen David Tebbutt and the abduction of his wife, Judith, a few days ago.

Over 100 companies interested in construction

New airport terminal in Kenya attracts interest across the world

(eTN) - Information received overnight from Nairobi talks of over 100 international and regional construction companies expressing interest in the tender documents available from the Kenya ...

Pipeline fire claims over a hundred lives

Tragedy strikes Nairobi

(eTN) - A major fire near or at a Kenya Pipeline Company depot in the industrial area on the outskirts of Nairobi has claimed over a hundred lives, at least 130, according to breaking news from ...

Kenya Kiwayu Safari Village, Kenya

Attacks on tourists in Kenya leaves one British visitor dead and one abducted

(eTN) - An attack on tourists occurred in the Kenya Kiwayu Safari Village, which comprises 18 beach cottages and is popular with local expatriates, as well as tourists seeking solitude and the ...

Quadrupling of Rates

Kenya Civil Aviation plans fee whopper

(eTN) - While aviation stakeholders have been locked in a seemingly never-ending argument with the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), with a near breakdown of relations when KCAA broke a ...

Kenyan Tourism To Break Record In 2011

Kenya expects 1.2 million international tourists in 2011

International tourist arrivals are expected to hit a record 1.2 million by the end of the year.

Bilateral meeting

Kenya to discuss air links with United States

(eTN) - A bilateral meeting between the United States and Kenya at the end of September will have aviation on the agenda, it was understood from a source in Nairobi.

investing in sustainable and viable projects

Kenya Red Cross ventures into hospitality sector

(eTN) - When last week the MP for Wajir South, one Muhammed Sirat, was thrown out of parliament in Nairobi by the Speaker, it became wider public knowledge that the Kenya Red Cross Society was in ...

Hoteliers anticipate arrivals next month

August Ramadan expected to impact domestic travel across Kenya

(eTN) - The annual summer holiday of local schools is underway in Kenya, but unlike in other years marked by the onset of the Holy Month of Ramadan earlier this week.

Strong and rising demand

Does Emirates have plans to bring the A380 to Kenya?

(eTN) - "Kenya is our third biggest market in Africa after South Africa and Nigeria," was the statement made earlier in the week, when Emirates’ Nairobi office launched the airline’s premium ...

Changes In African Air Service

Kenya's aviation sector: who next to fall to hard times?

(eTN) - Aviation in Kenya is generally a thriving industry with the number of aircraft registered and the daily flights recorded at the main airports, at Wilson, and across the entire country’s ...

Poachers Go On Killing Spree

Revenge killings of elephant shock Kenya

(eTN) - News emerged from conservation sources in Nairobi that members of a gang of poachers, allegedly led by one Adan Kanjur, inflicted cruel death on a family of 5 elephant south of Kora ...

Kenya Airline Pilots Association

Kenya Airways and pilots agree on new terms

(eTN) - The Kenya Airline Pilots Association has, according to a well-placed airline source in Nairobi, signed a collective bargaining agreement with Kenya Airways, ending a period of uncertainty ...

Growing List Of Airlines Want To Fly Into Nairobi

Kenya needs to speed up airport work

(eTN) - Under pressure by air operators, in particular the national airline, Kenya Airways, and faced with a growing list of airlines wanting to fly into Nairobi, were it not for capacity ...

Tourism Stakeholders Concerned

Kenya wants tourism development master plan

(eTN) - Stakeholders in the tourism industry yesterday met in Nairobi to discuss a number of pressing issues, but one highlighted to this correspondent was the absence of a tourism master plan, ...

Kenya Site

Fort Jesus makes it into UNESCO World Heritage books

(eTN) - The latest round of declaring sites of significant importance to the world’s cultural heritage by UNESCO has seen Fort Jesus included in the list of now protected and globally-acclaimed ...

Kenya: West suffocating developing countries through discriminatory taxes

Kenya seeks review of punitive travel taxes

Kenya wants the United Nations World Tourism Organization to intervene and help end travel conditions by western states that act as barriers to growth of the tourism industry in developing ...

Africans Should Be Going There All The Time

Travel News magazine uncovers secrets of Seychelles

KENYA'S STEVE SHELLEY SPEAKS OF HIS TRIP TO SEYCHELLES

Kenya Association of Hotelkeepers and Caterers

Kenya tourism promises hotel sector better loan facilitation

(eTN) - A recent meeting of the Kenya Association of Hotelkeepers and Caterers got good news from the CEO of the Kenya Tourist Development Corporation, when she announced that the ceiling of ...

Back-Up Generators Fail

Kenya airport hit by another blackout

(eTN) - News is gradually filtering in of yet another power outage at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi - the region's premier airport - which was hit on Saturday ...

Nairobi National Park Targeted

New highway plans shock Kenyan conservationists

(eTN) - No sooner had plans been revealed that the Kenya National Highways Authority had designs to build a road across the Nakuru National Park, one of the most visited parks in all of Kenya, did ...

Competition, inadequate budgets undermine Kenya's tourism

South Africa's surge threatens Kenyan tourism

The Kenya Tourism Board faces a daunting task in marketing the country as one of the best tourism destinations in the world mainly because of stiff competition from other African countries and ...