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Ghana’s tourism sector will take between two to three years to fully recover from the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic,an Associate Professor at the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Prof. Ishmael Mensah has predicted.
Speaking to the Ghanaian Times in an interview yesterday, Prof. Mensa… read more
The Rainforest Lodge in Mabira Forest will open its doors again next Monday and the new lodge operators will relaunch – following an extended lockdown over #COVID19 directives by the Ugandan government – with renewed vigour.Just a few days before the lockdown was announced and hotels, lodges and resorts forced to close down,… read more
Namibia's President Dr. Hage G. Geingob today (28 May 2020) announced that all 14 regions of the country, with the exception of the town of Wal… read more
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a set of guidelines to help tourism sector emerge stronger and more sustainably from COVID-19. The guidelines highlight the need to act decisively, to restore confidence and, as UNWTO strengthens its partnership with Google, to embrace innovation and the digital transformation of global tourism… read more
French hospitality giant Accor, which bought out Fairmont Hotels in 2016 for some 2.7 billion US Dollars, has reportedly pulled the plug on at least two of their properties in Kenya, the Norfolk Hotel and the Mara Safari Club.In a memo to staff of the hotel seen by ATCNews does one Mehdi Morad state:
This memo serves a… read more
Lionel Lopez grimaces as he looks at the stagnant green water in the bottom of the pool at his hotel in Senegal's Saloum Delta. He drained it after the global pandemic closed borders, bringing West Africa's tourism industry to a standstill in mid-March.
The Sine-Saloum region has escaped the worst of the epidemic that has so far infected m… read more
Tourism businesses in Seychelles will need to meet a set of criteria to help stop the spread of COVID-19 before welcoming visitors to their establishments when the island nation airport reopens for commercial flights on June 1, said a high official on Wednesday.
The principal secre… read more
The Sudan's government and the United Nations Office for Counter-Terrorism completed today's morning the singing of a memorandum of understanding to start the implementation of travel program matrix.
Due to the isolation policy practiced globally, because of the corona crisis (Covid-19), … read more
PRIVATE JETS TO BE ALLOWED IN FIRST WHILE RESORTS HAVE TO UNDERGO CERTIFICATION
Tourists able to afford travel by private jet will be the first to be allowed back into the Seychelles, after the international airport reopens next week. A key requirement is that visitors must produce a negative #COVID19 certification from their home country,… read more
Travel and tourism
players in the country have approached Government to intervene with a
recovery plan for the sector, which is among the hardest hit by the
coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
The global travel
and tourism sector was the first area of economic activity to be hit by… read more
Ghana’s tourism sector to fully recover in three years
Uganda: Rainforest Lodge Mabira set to reopen on Monday
Namibia goes to stage three of its four stage strategy
UNWTO launches global guidelines to re-open tourism
Fairmont Hotels closes Nairobi’s oldest hotel
Senegalese tourism hot spot lacks visitors
Seychellois Authorities Requiring 'Safe Tourism Certificate' Before re-open businesses
Sudan and UN Sign Memorandum On Implementation of (Travel Program Package)
Zimbabwe Tourism Sector Calls for Recovery Programme
