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Mauritius has introduced a new Premium Visa, valid for a period of one year and renewable. This measure was announced by Cabinet on Friday, October 23 to encourage eligible visitors to come to Mauritius for long stays. Highest sanitary standards and protocols will be maintained to ensure the sanitary safety of visitors as well as nat… read more
Mauritius launches long-term visa, homeoffice at the beach
Mauritius: Peak season almost lost
Ongoing uncertainty about Air Mauritius’s schedule combined with Mauritius’s current immigration restrictions and quarantine requirement (currently valid until November 30) are pushing operators to turn away December air bookings, with some now redirecting enquiries to alternative destinations.
Carla da Silva, Air Mauritiu… read more
Tanzania tourism announces major shift in destination marketing strategy
Tanzanian tour operators plan to bring the key Global Travel Agents into Tanzania in their latest painstaking initiatives to promote the country as a safe destination, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit key tourism source markets hard. Tanzania Association of Tour Operators (TATO) is currently working around the clock… read more
Nigeria:10 New Airports
The government said that the new airports will boost civil aviation in the country.The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, made the disclosure on Tuesday when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Aviation for the 2021 budget defense by the Ministry of Aviation and its agencies.Sirika who also bemoaned decayed infrastructure at the … read more
ZIM: Good news for tourism as land borders open
The country’s tourism sector is set to receive a major boost from the 1st of December when the country opens its major land borders. According to statistics from the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA), most tourists to Zimbabwe enter through road using mainly the Beitbridge Border Post.
However, the border together with … read more
Cabo Verde opens border - press release
Cabo Verde Airlines considers
the sudden opening of the Borders of Cabo Verde to be an exciting first
step on the long journey ahead to reinvigorating the tourism industry
and the national economy of Cabo Verde. Despite the opening of the Cape
Verdean border, the borders of other countries remain largely closed to
passengers coming… read more
Government ‘hopes’ to open borders to all countries by December
Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said she ‘hoped’ that the list banning certain high-risk countries from entering South Africa will be scrapped in time for the festive season.
December is peak holiday season in South Africa and Kubayi-Ngubane told EWN that although the country desperately needs … read more
Rwanda: Forbes '20 Best Places to Travel in 2021'
Rwanda has made it to the Forbes' list of top 20 best destinations to travel to in 2021. Every year Forbes brings together a team of experts to rank top 20 world's best destinations that tourists can visit. This year, like last year, Rwanda made it to that list.
The country was chosen by Julie Danziger, the cofounder and mana… read more
Gambia’s Abubacar Camara appointed as new Director General of Tourism Board
Abubacar S. Camara, former acting director general of Gambia Tourism Board has been appointed as the new DG of the organisation.
Camara who replaced Abdoulie Hydara as Gambia Tourism Board director general, has over 18 years’ experience in the organisation and has been in acting capacity. The new director general has a… read more
Ghana to start issuing electronic visas in 2021
From 2021, Ghana will introduce a new electronic visa system to ease the process of obtaining travel authorizations. The procurement process has been launched for the selection of a company that will partner with the Ghana Immigration Service (SIG) for its implementation."Design, supply, install, build capacity and deploy an… read more
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