Travel news overview

• 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

• Flights
• 19/01/2021 06:57

KLM to reduce flights between Amsterdam and South Africa

The flag carrier airline of the Netherlands, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, has announced that it had to modify its flight schedules bet… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 19/01/2021 06:53

TMCs re-strategize for better businesses in 2021, advised to focus on ancillary services

FINCHGLOW Travels, an indigenous travel management company and a subsidiary of Finchglow Group recently held its annual trade partners forum in Lagos where it advised partners to look beyond the turbulent 2020 and position themselves for a better year.

Group Managing Director of Finchglow Group, Mr. Bankole Bernard… read more

• Destinations
• 19/01/2021 06:52

Govt Uplifts Domestic Tourism

If travelling long distances in search of tourist attractions deters you from doing domestic tourism, the challenge may soon be over as the government moves to decentralize tourism centres.

Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Dr Damas Ndumbaro acknowledged that having many tourist attractions within only few specific plac… read more

• Opinion
• 19/01/2021 06:49

What is Slow Travel?

Before the world’s travel came to a shocking halt, did you ever come home from a long awaited holiday feeling more exhausted than you were before you left? Many travellers live hectic, stressful lives, and the frantic pace only continues while they’re on a trip as they rush from one tourist attraction to another. But there’s a grassroots … read more