Wildebeest calving in Serengeti
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania
(eTN) - Standing on the rooftops of their vans with their cameras up, tourists from all corners of the world are now flocking to Tanzania’s leading Serengeti National Park to witness the ...
The wonder of an African destination feature
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania
TANZANIA (eTN) - Life in the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania may be an exciting interlude in one’s lifetime. It is where a natural drama plays out every year.
Tourist stakeholders applaud Seven Natural Wonders
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania
The tourist fraternity in East Africa has expressed everlasting joy after selection of four natural tourist attractive features into the list of Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.
Tanzania’s oldest and most popular park
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania
TANZANIA (eTN) - Covering a total area of 14,763 kilometers of natural and expanse grazing land in northern Tanzania tourist circuit, Serengeti National Park has been named this year’s chosen ...
East African Court of Justice sets hearing date for January 23 next year
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
The East African Court of Justice in Arusha announced last Friday the trial date for the case environmental groups have brought against the Tanzanian government over the controversial routing of a ...
Connecting Serengeti with Bwindi National Park
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
UGANDA (eTN) -Tanzania’s Coastal Aviation and Uganda’s Kampala Aero Club and Flight Training Center (KAFTC), aka Fly Uganda, will offer a unique link effective December 15, connecting the ...
Serengeti shall not die
(eTN) - With the contentious and potentially lethal Serengeti Highway not yet fully out of the picture, and the route of a proposed railway line to and from Tanga to Musoma on Lake Victoria kept a ...
Serengeti highway remains a controversy
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - While in Canada for an official state visit, Tanzania President Kikwete found himself in a tight spot, when challenged by the media over the hugely controversial Serengeti highway plans ...
Wildebeest migration
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania
TANZANIA (eTN) - Standing on the rooftops of their tourist vans with their cameras up, tourists from all corners of the world are now flocking to Tanzania’s leading Serengeti National Park to ...
TANAPA becomes destination member
HALEIWA, Hawaii, USA; BRUSSELS, Belgium; VICTORIA, Seychelles – The International Council of Tourism Partners (ICTP) announced that Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) has joined the alliance as a ...
Annual migration
By Adam Ihucha, eTN Tanzania
TANZANIA (eTN) - Tanzania has refuted the allegation that it had set fire in northern parts of Serengeti to block the annual wildebeest migration to Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve.
Dutch Tourist Killed In Serengeti
(eTN) - A Dutch tourist and one the camp’s managers of Ikoma Tented Camp in the western part of the Serengeti were killed when a gang of armed thugs came to rob valuables and camp equipment. ...
By Professor Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Africa correspondent
This week, eTurboNews is looking back at a decade of success, having grown from strength to strength and established itself as a friend of those destinations which 10 years ago were not exactly in ...
Rail will be a lifeline for Tanzania and Uganda
By Adam Ihucha, eTN Arusha
ARUSHA, Tanzania (eTN) - Tanzania and Uganda have agreed that a proposed joint commercial rail track that runs from Tanga-Arusha-Musoma-Kampala, would not cross through the Serengeti National ...
One killed, one missing, several injured
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - It was learned yesterday that a massive landslide cut off the main route between the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha at Mto Wa Mbu, the escarpment where the Lake Manyara ...
conservation fraternity in Tanzania alarmed
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Comments made over the weekend by Tanzania’s Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda did not go down well with the conservation fraternity in Tanzania at all it appears, as comments and broadsides ...
Selous Game Reserve
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - News just broke that no sooner had the Tanzanian government been compelled by intense global criticism and threats of decampaigning its tourism industry to write to UNESCO and give a ...
Effects Of Highway And Mining On The Serengeti
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - The great herds of wildebeest are stirring again after the calving season in the low-grass plains between the Serengeti and Ngorongoro.
Negative Publicity Hurting Tanzania Tourism
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - Several stakeholders in the tourism sector have, following a consultative meeting of the industry in Dar es Salaam in early March, spoken out on the issue of the Serengeti highway and ...
Tanzania
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - The globally-renowned Serengeti National Park (SENAPA) cannot get out of the news lately. More bad stories have emerged, this time over a cattle invasion that occurred last week.
Tanzania News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - Information was received last week from participants of the UNESCO World Heritage Status meeting in Brazil, that the world body has made it clear that they were seriously concerned over ...
Tanzania News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - The Kenyan government, with the referendum and promulgation of the country’s new constitution now behind them, is seemingly now once again focusing on matters arising as information ...
Politics And The Environment
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - Stroking top politicians’ egos is a favorite pastime of sycophants in the run up to any election, but Tanzania is taking it to a completely new level now by stubbornly sticking to a road ...
Tanzanian President Speaks On The Issue
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN
TANZANIA, Africa (eTN) - After several months of media dialogue and wildlife conservationists against the planned stretch of a tarmac road through the Serengeti National Park, Tanzanian President ...
Tanzania News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - Information unearthed during the week is adding to the disquiet in conservation circles, as unsavory connections are now beginning to emerge of the "god fathers" of the hugely ...
Tanzania
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) The slogan, Serengeti must not die, was coined by the late Prof. Dr.
Tanzania Debate Continues
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) A government minister waded into the Serengeti highway debate last week, when the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism – supposed to protect ecosystems – claimed the new road ...
Tanzania Plans For Commercial Truck Highway
By David Blanton
ITHACA, New York - Travel companies, associations, and travelers around the world are asking the government of Tanzania to stop plans for a major commercial highway across the Serengeti National ...
Crossing Into Serengeti And Masai Mara
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) Information was received over the last weekend from sources in both the Serengeti and the Masai Mara, that the annual
Tourism Employs Strength Of Social Media
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) As recently reported here on eTurboNews, the Tanzanian government appears set to build a highway through the Serengeti to Lake Victoria, claiming this to be the most direct and, therefore, ...
