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Travel into and out of Uganda will for the time being continue to be restricted to medical emergencies, according to details revealed in a presidential address last evening. This prompted immediate demands by the country’s tourism industry to replace such open ended announcements with more detailed information, when the international airport… read more
Uganda still closed for scheduled passenger flights
Air Mauritius restarts Rodrigues service in July/August 2020
Air Mauritius from July 2020 plans to resume service to Rodrigues, subject to travel restrictions and approval. This will be the airline’s sole route between 01JUL20 and 31AUG20, as the airline extended scheduled service suspension until 31AUG20 inclusive.
The airline currently schedules 3 weekly Mauritius – Rodr… read more
Mauritius: MTA publishes guidelines to start operations
The Tourism Authority of Mauritius recently released a new set of guidelines that highlight the sanitary measures necessary to be undertaken by the tourism sector for resuming tourism activities. The guidelines have been designed to tourism businesses with specific health and safety solutions to ensure the protection of staff and customer… read more
Tourism Business Council of South Africa says international travel may resume in September
The Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) says the International travel may resume by September despite the prediction by South Africa’s Department of Tourism that tourism activities would not resume until February 2021
A briefing last month by South Africa’s Department of Tourism stated that tourism wouldn’… read more
Nigeria: test run of Lagos airport this saturday
The Minister of Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika says a test run is to be conducted at the Lagos airport to ascertain the level of preparedness of the airport for resumption of flights.
The dry run exercise according to the Minister would come up on Saturday this week the 27 of June to see how things would look like at resu… read more
Air Mauritius - Understanding the MK crisis
Despite government support to the national carrier and vital sectors to restart economic and industrial activities, Air Mauritius is facing an abyssal financial problem. According to several sources, Air Mauritius expects to report a loss of MUR 9.5 billion Mauritian rupees (USD 238 million) for the current financial year, ending March 2021.… read more
Namibia with COVIT-19 improvements
Namibia’s President Dr. Hage G. Geingob (22 June 2020) announced that 13 of the 14 regions of Namibia will migrate from stage three to stage four of the country’s four-stage strategy to exit the coronavirus lockdown at midnight on 29 June 2020. The Erongo Region, which is currently in stage one lockdown, will migrate to stage three at midnight t… read more
Dubai’s Reopening starts in July
Yesterday, President of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman and CEO of Emirates Airlines (EK) and Group, and Chairman of flydubai (FZ) Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum announced that Dubai would once again welcome tourists starting July 7.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that caused the shutdown of touri… read more
South Africa: Radisson Blu Gautrain re-opens its doors
With South Africa currently on level 3 of the nationwide lockdown, business travel has commenced and as a result, Radisson Blu Gautrain Hotel, Sandton is scheduled to reopen their doors on 22 June 2020.
Last month, the hotel provided assistance with South African citizen repatriation, with extensive measures and efforts in pl… read more
Air Cote d'Ivoire resumes domestic operations
We are pleased to announce the resumption of our domestic flights, from Abidjan to Korhogo, San Pedro, Man, Bouaké and Odienné, as of this Friday, June 26, 2020, in strict compliance with the sanitary measures recommended by the authorities:-Body temperature control,
-Washing or disinfecting hands,
-Distancing in the… read more
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