Key training to take place in Uganda
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
UGANDA (eTN) - The Kampala Serena Hotel will be East Africa’s leading hospitality group’s second property to host a new training initiative, first rolled out at the Polana Serena in ...
Cornwell Muleya named CEO
KAMPALA, Uganda - Air Uganda is pleased to announce the appointment of its new CEO, Cornwell Muleya. Mr.
Wildlife and environment agencies say no to golf course
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
UGANDA (eTN) - When presiding over the passing out of over 400 new Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) rangers last week, President Museveni again let fly over his disappointment, if not outright ...
Uganda travel
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
UGANDA (eTN) - Anger and disappointment are spreading among travelers to and from the Ssese Islands but also the business owners, in particular those offering accommodation services to visitors, ...
Uganda flights
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
(eTN) - Usually well-informed sources have indicated that after a 6-month gap at the top, Air Uganda will reveal the name of a new CEO on April 1, 2013.
Uganda tourism
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
UGANDA (eTN) - As 2012 is waning now, and with it Uganda’s accolade as the Lonely Planet Guide Books’ Number ONE Destination for the year, and the hype fades of reaching the half century mark ...
Filling airline seats
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
UGANDA (eTN) - With presently three flights a week between Entebbe to Mombasa and on to Zanzibar, Uganda’s quasi-national airline, U7, is clearly intent to fill those 50 seats in the CRJ 200 ...
Airline expands North American destinations
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
UGANDA (eTN) - A regular source had, during my absence, left a text message on my phone, none of which were inexplicably roaming in Bahrain in spite of my home operators assurances to the ...
Ambitious 5-year tourism development plan
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
UGANDA (eTN) - The government in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, launched yesterday an ambitious 5-year tourism development plan, thought to cost them a cool 5 billion shillings (a little over US$2 ...
Commission Findings
By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda
UGANDA (eTN) - After four months of waiting, the Ministry of Tourism has finally received the Kanyeihamba report, giving the findings of the commission of enquiry, which has over the past year ...
Accommodation on Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - Uganda’s latest addition to the safari circuit, the Amuka Lodge on the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, is now open for business, it was learned, as Johan Genade welcomed his first ...
Uganda Is A Stable Country To Visit
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - Stage-managed and apparently media-scripted events in recent days have portrayed Uganda as a country "in problems" but far from it.
Demand For More Flights
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - Information received from the local Emirates office confirmed that it will expand its connectivity across the board by adding more destinations and increasing frequencies, as demand ...
Uganda News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - The Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary has decided to maintain most of its current rates for 2010, effective with immediate effect.
Uganda News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - In spite of the problems in 2010 with the Icelandic ash cloud and the severe winter snow storms in December, Brussels Airlines (SN), the Belgian national airline, carried overall ...
Uganda Wildlife Authority Board Shake Up
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - The Attorney General’s Office last weekend published advice sought by government over initial plans to install a caretaker board, following the sacking of the majority of board ...
Uganda News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - African aviation sources have, in communications with this correspondent, pointed out that the ongoing rollout, by Emirates in particular, was not necessarily in the best interest ...
Lake Ferry Kalangala
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - The latest information obtained from the Uganda Ministry of Works and Transport about the hugely important lake ferry connecting Entebbe with the Ssese Islands, is that it will now ...
Air France Conducting Surveys
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - It is understood that pre-operations surveys have been and are being carried out by Air France in Uganda, for the purpose of commencing flights between Paris and Entebbe sometime in ...
Uganda Aviation News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - The Ugandan travel trade and business community were last week invited to a corporate dinner hosted by Precision Air of Tanzania in the presence of CEO Alfonse Kioko and the Acting ...
World Heritage Site
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - The caretaker of the burned down UNESCO World Heritage Site and key cultural monument of the Buganda Kingdom has, in his capacity as a witness before the commission of inquiry into ...
Uganda Tourism News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - Key development partners and donors of the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) have now formally written to the government of Uganda, demanding that UWA return to proper management and ...
Uganda Aviation News
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - Information was received last weekend that the regional low-cost carrier, Fly 540, has leased two DC 9 aircraft, for the first time offering business class seats in any of their ...
The Luring Of Trained ATCs
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - International airlines, especially those based in the Gulf region, have in the past made it almost a habit to snap up trained pilots, cabin crew, and technical personnel from ...
Issues Raised
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - The recent 34th Air Service Licensing Committee meeting in Uganda conducted the business of receiving applications from a range of new applicants, many of whom are located in ...
Conservation Efforts
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - Comments attributed to the acting executive director of UWA, Mark Kamanzi, to the effect of "what is wrong with a golf course in the park" have raised a storm of outrage across ...
Negotiations Concluded
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - Last week saw pen put to paper in Kampala, when the long drawn-out negotiations over a new BASA were finally concluded.
Uganda Hotels
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - Following the disastrous decision some years ago to throw out the Shimoni Primary School pupils and teachers and uproot the Shimoni Teachers Training College from their premises in ...
Overall A Good Day For Tourism
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - A controversial letter in mid-August by the board of the Uganda Wildlife Authority to the Madhvani Group’s Marasa Limited – the hospitality arm of the diverse industrial, ...
Lodge Opening Sparks Renewed Attention
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
UGANDA (eTN) - The grand opening last week of the Chobe Safari Lodge also brought about renewed controversy, when the Chief Executive of the Madhvani Group, Mr.
