growing African destination
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania
The Tanzania’s tourism is set for parliamentary debate mid-this week, at the time this growing African destination is facing challenges in tourism marketing campaigns shouldered by budgetary ...
Bukoba airport
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - A regular aviation source in Dar es Salaam has confirmed that the airport of Tanzania’s Lake Victoria township of Bukoba, located on the western shores of the lake, and administrative ...
Promoting promote Lake Tanganyika for tourism
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Tourism stakeholders, keen to promote Lake Tanganyika as an additional natural resource area beyond the traditional national parks and coastal beaches, have expressed dismay over reports ...
Adding extra capacity to the market
By Dr.Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority’s licensing committee will meet in May to consider a number of new and renewal applications, aimed to add extra capacity into the market and uphold ...
Tanzania tours guides must get licensed
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Correspondent, Uganda
(eTN) - Under a recently launched new set of regulations, it will become mandatory for tour guides in Tanzania to register and get licensed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.
Envoys appointed to represent Tanzania
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania
TANZANIA (eTN) - Through its newly-introduced economic diplomacy policy, Tanzania foreign missions in tourist market sources of Africa, Europe, America, and Asia had set up strategies that would ...
US now the largest tourism market for Tanzania
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania
TANZANIA (eTN) - In a move to encourage more American tourists and investors, Tanzania's Ambassador to the United States, Mwanaidi Maajar, has tailored a “Discover Tanzania VIP Safari” for a ...
In spite of More flying
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - A source close to the Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed that the recently-ended year of 2011 saw less civil air accidents in spite of more flying being recorded compared to ...
Special Mount Kilimanjaro Expedition To Mark Date
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (eTN) - Five months to go before Tanzania celebrates 50 years of self rule, and the Tanzania Tourist Board is currently organizing tourism activities to commemorate the ...
Devota Kasanda Mdachi Appointed
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - Dr. Aloyce Nzuki, Managing Director, Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB), announced the appointment of Devota Kasanda Mdachi as TTB's new Marketing Director. She succeeds ...
Tourism Promotion Blitz
By Adam Ihucha, eTN
ARUSHA (eTN) – Tanzania is working overtime, rolling out the red carpet for nearly 90 million Asian tourists expected to travel abroad in 2011 and spend a staggering US$86 billion.
Business And Tourism Growth
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (eTN) - Taking advantage of business growth and fast-growing tourism in Tanzania and East Africa, Qatar Airways has increased its flights in the East African region with ...
More Than Meets The Eye
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - A regular source from Arusha passed information over the weekend that the airstrip serving Klein’s Camp has been closed by the authorities.
President Kikwete Presides
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - President Kikwete opened the Mt.
Accommodation Needs
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (eTN) - With the growing number of tourists currently visiting Tanzania, there is a great demand for beds to cope with the visitors in northern, coastal, and southern ...
Upcoming Tourist Site
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - A new national park is in the making on an island just off the lakeside municipality of Mwanza in Tanzania, the proverbial stone's throw away from the town.
Tanzania News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - Signs are emerging that the hugely controversial plans for a highway across the Serengeti National Park may still be under consideration, according to remarks made last weekend by the new ...
Horns Removed By Poachers
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - The Tanzanian government has come under severe criticism when news emerged that one of the five Eastern Black Rhinos brought from South Africa earlier in the year, has been found dead with ...
Tanzania Tourism News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - The Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, already in the bad book of donors and development partners over their vague stand about the hugely controversial Serengeti highway ...
Tanzania
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - News broke last weekend that Safari Plus, a locally registered safari or charter airline, will start air operations in early 2011 with a Beechcraft 1900 and a King Air 350B.
Tanzania News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - It could not be ascertained if or how several organizations previously totally opposed to the planned highway across the Serengeti migration routes arrived at their sudden change of heart, ...
Mr. Ezekiel Maige Takes Over
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN
TANZANIA, Dar es Salaam (eTN) - Tanzania, an upcoming African tourist destination, has a new tourism minister, Mr.
Targeting The Northern Tourist Circuit Regions
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN
TANZANIA, Dar es Salaam (eTN) - Ethiopian Airlines has increased its flight frequencies to Tanzania, targeting the northern tourist circuit regions of Kilimanjaro and Arusha and the Lake Victoria ...
Tanzania
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - December 17 has been provisionally set for the re-opening of Mt. Meru Hotel in Arusha after well over a two years of closure for rebuilding and refurbishments.
Graf Von Goetzen
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - Arguably the oldest ship on the Tanzanian registry is to be turned into a museum, going by reports received from regular sources in Arusha.
Tanzania
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - Visitors to the spice island of Zanzibar in Tanzania can now take advantage of a new feature available to them from the international airport, aimed to show them their resort and the rest ...
Increaeses Over A Third
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) last week provided information that the demand for air service licenses, compared with 2009, has risen by more than a third in the recent ...
19 Million Expected To Vote
By Apolinari Tairo, eTN
TANZANIA, Africa (eTN) - Tanzania, a fast-growing tourist destination, held its traditional five-year general election on Sunday, October 31, 2010 to elect a new president, members of parliament, ...
Tanzania Cultural Event
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - The next "Sauti za Busara" music and culture festival, due to be held between February 9-13 next year, is getting into the hot period of preparations, with the 100-day countdown coming ...
Shedding Promotional Light On The Region
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
(eTN) - The Mwanza municipality and some of its neighbors has committed nearly 20 million Tanzania Shillings (US$13,324) to promote their area more aggressively in Tanzania, aimed to attract more ...
