Africa airlines
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Fly 540 and FastJet have dropped their mutual court action, which reflected widely different understandings and perceptions on the state of their agreements of cooperation and sale of ...
United Nations Environmental Assembly
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi is now the home of the newly-upgraded United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEP), formerly known as the UN Environment Program.
National Environmental Management Authority in Nairobi
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - The conservation fraternity in Kenya welcomed the news that NEMA, the National Environmental Management Authority in Nairobi, has issued an order to halt any developments in the greater ...
Kenya welcomes second annual forum
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - September 25 and 26 were given to this correspondent from a hospitality source at the InterContinental Hotel in Nairobi, when the hugely successful Africa Hotel Investment Forum will ...
Way-stop to Dubai
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Effective tomorrow RwandAir will re-launch their Mombasa stop for 3 of their 7 weekly flights between Kigali and Dubai.
Increasing connectivity
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Reliable sources from Nairobi have confirmed that a principal agreement has been reached between Kenya Airways (KQ) and RwandAir (WB), when KQ’s Dr.
formal launch of highway linking Nairobi to Arusha
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Part of the official program for the upcoming East African Community Head of State Summit in Nairobi will be the formal launch of the new highway, which is linking Nairobi, via Namanga, to ...
plead for bail
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Former Permanent Secretary Rebecca Nabutoola, former Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) CEO Dr.
Aviation sources worry about delays
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Aviation sources in Nairobi are getting increasingly worried over the apparent delays in procurement for Terminal 4 furnishings and equipment, prolonging the worsening congestion of the ...
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Breaking news are reaching from a source at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi that Air Traffic Control has inflicted a slow go on all traffic in and out of Kenya’s premier ...
JKIA will change under Project Greenfield
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - A regular aviation source from Nairobi has confirmed that the Kenya Airport Authority (KAA), under immense pressure to complete ongoing construction and expansion work and then start with ...
Kenya Highway System
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - The brand new 8-lane highway, connecting Nairobi with the municipality of Thika, was yesterday formally commissioned by President Mwai Kibaki, under whose leadership the project was ...
The question has been answered
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTNB) - Following the question raised this morning about Gulf Air's Africa flights - to be or not to be, I can now confirm that effective November 13, the airline will suspend their flights ...
Victims not yet identified
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Sad news just in from Mombasa confirms that two foreign tourists, of yet unknown nationality and names, have died alongside with their driver and another passenger, when a truck rammed ...
Kenya rail
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Perennial traffic jams have turned the once swift journey to and from Nairobi’s International Airport into a nightmare, often compelling departing passengers to leave hours before their ...
Africa Hotel Investment Forum 2012 opens next week in Nairobi
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania
(eTN) - In a move to raise its tourism profile, Africa needs more five-star hotels that would attract high-class tourists and global competitiveness in the hospitality industry.
Africa Hotels Investment Forum
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Staff Writer, Tanzania
Competing to win a share in global tourist market, Africa is looking at best strategies to attract more investors in hotel industry during the forthcoming Africa Hotels Investment Forum (AHIF) ...
South African Tourism
South African Tourism (SAT) plans to open a regional office in Nairobi during the 2013-2014 financial year, South African Tourism director for Domestic, Africa and Middle East, Phumi Ndlomo has ...
Kenya Airports Authority descends into fighting as CEO suspended by board
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - The latest twist in the saga of Kenya airports, is now hitting the headlines in Nairobi, with allegations of a million dollar bribe having been given to an unnamed official, who ...
Next phase begins to classify hotels
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania
TANZANIA (eTN) - When stakeholders in the hotels and accommodation establishments are set to meet in Nairobi next month in the first ever Africa Hotels Investment Forum (AHIF) to discuss the hotel ...
common market for eastern and southern africa forum
The theme of this historic event is “Shaping the Future of Tourism in COMESA,” and it is being organized with the support of the COMESA Business Council in partnership with the Kenya ...
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - The Lusaka-based headquarters of Africa’s largest trade block, COMESA (Common Market for Easter and Southern Africa), has today issued a media statement ahead of their first Sustainable ...
Ban badly received by hospitality and tourism industries
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Information was confirmed yesterday that the US Embassy in Nairobi has lifted the travel ban imposed on all their staff – though that clearly did not affect the allegedly dozens of ...
US Embassy pulls staff from Mombasa amid tourism stakeholders’ protests
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - The announcement by the US Embassy in Nairobi, that they had “credible intelligence of an imminent attack on tartest in Mombasa” was taken a step further yesterday when all their ...
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 ...
Al Shabaab militia suspected behind Kenya terror attacks
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - According to a phoned-in report, while on the road in Kenya, just after 1:00 pm today, an explosion took place in a building along Moi Avenue in the center of Nairobi, injuring at least 27 ...
Africa Hotel Industry
By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief
Nairobi is preparing to host many prominent international hotel owners, investors, financiers, management companies and their advisers for the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF).
Improving aviation safety in Africa
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Following 5 days of meetings in Kampala last week, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) moved on to Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, where another series of seminars, workshops, ...
Cabinet Reshuffled
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - A cabinet reshuffle announced this afternoon in Nairobi revealed that Kenya’s successful and widely-respected Minister of Tourism, presently also the Chairman of the UNWTO Executive ...
Tapping into social media
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Kenya’s capital city has once again been chosen to host a major continental tourism conference in March this year.
