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Air travel to South Africa is slowly recovering
Following the discovery of the Omicron variant on November 24 by South African scientists, 90 countries imposed travel bans on flights from South Africa, which saw bookings drop by 85%. But, with the easing of restrictions, travel to South Africa is slowly recovering. After the huge drop in flights to South Africa in December, … read more
Tourism revenues up 19% in first 10 days of 2022
Tunisia's tourism revenues edged up by 19% to 37.8 million dinars (MD) in the first 10 days of 2022, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest monetary and financial indicators of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT).
Likewise, the cumulative labour income grew by 16% to 158MD against 135MD last year.
Foreign… read more
Namibia: Inbound travellers are required to use the "Trusted Travel System" from today
As of 15 January 2022, all travellers entering Namibia through its thirteen main Ports of Entry are required to have their Covid-19 test resu… read more
Kruger National Park is one of the most popular National Parks on TikTok
Travel Update: Seychelles removes Southern African countries from restricted travel list
Visitors from South Africa and other Southern African countries will once again be able to travel to the paradise islands of the Seychelles as of Thursday, 6 January 2022, the country’s Ministry of Health has announced, also advising the introduction of additional considerations for incoming travellers with proof of past recent inf… read more
Resource Parks and Gardens to prosecute mandate
The Department of Parks and Gardens yesterday received some pieces of equipment from its sector ministry, the Ministry for Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development (MLGDRD), to augment the existing equipment to facilitate its revitalisation.
The equipment included computers, mowing machines, drive mowers, chainsaw ma… read more
Travel ban lifted at Mauritius
Since Friday 7 January 2022, the Covid-19 travel ban imposed by the Republic of Mauritius on the Republic of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia has been lifted and commercial passenger flights from these countries to Mauritius already resumed.
Travellers are reques… read more
Namibia hails Germany's travel risk status decision
As of 4 January, all countries which appeared on Germany's "virus variant areas list" were moved to its high-risk list, that country's Robert Koch Institute announced. Namibia is included among the lists of countries regarded as high-risk areas. Others are Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe a… read more
U.S.$36 Million to support communities around Rwanda's National Parks
Rwanda is set to host the regional headquarters of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) following a presidential order signed by President Paul Kagame and issued in the national gazette.
Founded in 1895, Wildlife Conservation Society is an NGO with headquarters in New York with the aim to conserve the world's largest wildlife … read more
Covid-19: South Africa has introduced changes to its Adjusted Alert Level 1 lockdown regulations
South Africa i mplemented a five-level Covid-19 alert system in … read more
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