Travel news overview

• Miscellaneous
• 20/01/2021 06:19

What to expect for the future of travel

Before the coronavirus pandemic arrived, the future of travel was bright. In fact, it kept growing at incredible speed, over the ten previous years. But COVID-19 is reshaping the industry and will most probably leave behind many new rules that will need to be followed, whenever we leave our city for tourism purposes. That said there were already… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 20/01/2021 06:19

UNWTO Executive Council Election Result

The Executive Council of the World Tourism Organization today re-elected Zurab Pololikashvili from Georgia for a second term as Secretary-General.

With a lot of manipulation, he had 25 votes. HE Shaika Mai Bint Mohammed Al-Khalifa from Bahrain had 8 countries voting for her.

The election has to be confirmed by the UNWTO General Assem… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 20/01/2021 06:18

UK visa application centre in Accra shuts down following closure of Movenpick Hotel

• Flights
• 20/01/2021 06:17

Qatar achieves a 5-star COVID-19 Airline Safety Rating

Qatar Airways has become the first global airline in the world to achieve the prestigious 5-Star COVID-19 Airline Safety Rating by international air transport rating organisation, Skytrax.

The announcement follows a detailed audit, carried out by the Skytrax team in December 2020, which assessed how effectively and consistent… read more

• Flights
• 19/01/2021 20:12

Qatar Airways resumes flights to Cairo

The national carrier of the State of Qatar has touched down in Cairo for the first time since 2017. The airline will operate daily flights to Cairo on a state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Qatar Airways today resumed flights to Cairo in the Arab Republic of Egypt with a daily service. QR1301 departed Hamad International Ai… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 19/01/2021 20:09

IATA supports EU digital COVID-19 vaccination certificate

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged all branches of the European Union to support an initiative from Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to agree a common digital European COVID-19 vaccination certificate that would enable those who are vaccinated to travel freely within Europe without COVID-19 testing.

• Opinion
• 19/01/2021 20:08

Five ways traveling can help you grow as a person

Ever since the dawn of time, our brain was wired to gather knowledge and evolve. And while school is the go-to place to improve your academic knowledge, it doesn’t do much when it comes to teaching you about life, or careers for that matter.

Discovering yourself and improving your skills is something you will have to do on your own, withou… read more

• Flights
• 19/01/2021 20:08

Airlines may face more hardship as MMA2 allegedly plans 100% PSC increase to N5000

AIRLINE sources have confided in Nigerianflighteck. com that management of Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL) operators of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2 have plans in the works to increase Passenger Service charge to N5000 from N2,500, a one hundred per cent increment.

This is coming barely a week after the … read more

• Flights
• 19/01/2021 15:42

Emirates partners with IATA Travel Pass

Emirates has partnered with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to become one of the first airlines in the world to trial IATA Travel Pass – a mobile app to help passengers easily and securely manage their travel in line with any government requirements for COVID-19 testing or vaccine information.

IATA Travel P… read more

• Opinion
• 19/01/2021 07:01

Enhancing intra-African tourism

In a world where tourism was experiencing exponential growth - at least before the viral Covid-19 pandemic started to wreak havoc on national economies and humanity across the world last year - Leina had embarked upon a mission to inspire "Africans to travel within their own continent..."

For all practical purposes, this amounts to 'intra-… read more