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TAZARA resumes passenger train operations
The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) has announced that passenger trains are set to continue to operate within the respective regions between Dar es Salaam and … read more
How Google and Meta could disrupt travel discovery with AI
The travel industry, worth an estimated $9.5 trillion in 2023, has long been a prime target for tech giants like Google and Meta. With AI, they aim to capture a larger share of the lucrative trav… read more
Nigeria is important to TAAG Angola Airlines
The management of TAAG Angola Airlines has said that the Nigerian travel market is important to its growth due to its resilience and excitement.
This is as the Southern African airline has unveiled plans to deployed Airbus aircraft series to the Nigerian route from its base in Luanda to replace the current Boeing 777 aircraft… read more
What’s on the horizon for: Sabre
At Routes Americas 2024 in Bogota, representatives from Texas-based software and technology company Sabre spoke to Routes about how changes in route development have led to the need for more robust data sources.
Sabre is the largest global distribution systems (GDS) provider for air bookings, as well as offering a broad rang… read more
Kenya Railways: Unlocking land potential to enhance urban mobility
The Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) boasts an extensive railway network, comprising 2,778 km of narrow-gauge lines and 605 km of standard-gauge lines across the country. Additionally, KRC is the second largest landowner in Kenya, with significant land holdings along the railways and around station areas. Despite this, much of this land r… read more
Zimbabwe to hosts first UN Tourism regional forum on gastronomy for Africa
UN Tourism is to host its first Regional Forum on Gastronomy Tourism for Africa, advancing its work to make gastronomy tourism a pillar for… read more
Nigeria’s Minister of Tourism outlines vision for tech-driven, and community-focused tourism
Nigeria’s Minister of Tourism, Lola Ade-John, has outlined her vision for tech-driven, culturally-rich and community-focused tourism for her country’s untapped tourism industry. Ade-John outlined her focus points in a recent interview at the 121 Executive Council Meeting of the UN Tourism, which held recently in Barcelona, … read more
Zambia to host 67th UN Tourism CAF meetings & 2nd Brand Africa Confab in July
The city of Livingstone in Zambia will host the 67th Meeting of the UN Tourism Regional Commission for Africa (CAF) and the 2nd UN Tourism Regional Conference on Brand Africa from July 22 to 24, 2024. Themed “Promoting Africa to unlock tourism investments and the Sector’s growth potential,” this pivotal event aims to position Africa as… read more
Tourism Promotion Top Priority
The strategic goal of the Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality Industry is to promote and develop the sector in line with the national development imperatives to make the country a prime tourism destination. Tourism and Hospitality Industry Deputy Minister Tongai Mnangagwa laid out this vision in his remarks during the public consultations on the… read more
Tickling the monkey on the back of Shs290bn tourism budget
The government plans to spend Shs289.6 billion on tourism development programmes in the 2024/2025 financial year. The tourism development envelope has been increased by slightly more than Shs50 billion from the Shs248.7 billion in the 2023/2024 financial.
Two years ago, the envelope hardly floated beneath the Shs200 billion mark and… read more
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