Travel news Ghana

• Miscellaneous
• 28/01/2023 01:39

New York to Host Ghana Expo 2023

The maiden edition of an exhibition that aims to promote Ghana's aviation, cargo and tourism sectors in the United States of America (USA) has been launched.

Slated for June 17 this year in New York, the "Aviation, Cargo and Tourism Expo 2023" aims to whip up interest in Ghana's tourist attractions, entertainment and culture, export, cargo… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 27/01/2023 23:06

Tourism trade from Africa impressed with 2023 FITUR’s platform for business links

• Flights
• 24/01/2023 19:17

Ghana Airlines interested in ATR aircraft for its launch fleet

Ghana Airlines is expected to commence operations later this year. While it is certain that it will start with a fleet of turboprops, the future Ghanaian parastatal is still studying market availability.

• Destinations
• 23/01/2023 19:50

Ghana makes impressive showing at FITUR 2023

Ghana’s Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister, Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Awal has led a delegation comprising officials of the Ministry, the Ghana Tourism Authority and tourism and travel businesses in the private sector to this year’s FITUR in Madrid, Spain.

While there, the Minister has had meetings with internationa… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 21/01/2023 08:04

23 African countries attended FITUR 2023

A total of twenty-three (23) countries from Africa participated in this year’s FITUR in Madrid, Spain.

Participation from these countries will include state tourism ministries, boards, private sector businesses, organisations and individual travel and tourism stakeholders.

Fitur is a global benchmark event in the tourism sect… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 20/01/2023 06:49

Tour operators from Ghana exhibit at Vakantiebeurs 2023

Ghanaian tour operators have participated in this year’s Vakantiebeurs in Utretcht, Netherlands. Vakantiebeurs made a return after a two-year absence due to COVID-19 restrictions.

The January 12 -15th show attracted thousands of participants from across the world in various sectors of the tourism and travel industry; in… read more

• Cruise
• 18/01/2023 07:15

Nautica of Oceania Cruises to sail roundtrip at tail-end of Cape Town 2023/24 season

Oceania Cruises is brining Nautica back to South Africa for the 2023/24 cruise season, but unlike other luxury cruise lines such as Silversea, Regent and Azamara, they will not be sailing a full season.

Nautica will instead sail just two cruises from Cape Town at the tail-end of the 2023/24 season, with departur… read more

• Flights
• 14/12/2022 05:14

TAAG Angola Airlines lands in Pointe-Noire, Congo after 13 years of absence

For several years now, there have been no regular air links between Congo and Angola, two neighbouring countries in Central Africa that share a common land border.  TAAG Angola Airlines is now working to bring its two markets closer together.

TAAG Angola Airlines is starting its new service between Luanda and Point… read more

• Flights
• 07/12/2022 22:19

Kenya Airways and Royal Air Maroc reactivate their code-share agreement which has been paused

Kenya Airways (KQ) and Royal Air Maroc (RAM) have agreed on Tuesday 6 December 2022 to resume their code-share agreement initiated in 2016 and interrupted in 2019.

Under this reactivation, RAM passengers will now be able to travel to Nairobi, Zanzibar and Johannesburg on flights operated by KQ. In the reverse direction, the Kenya… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 01/12/2022 21:29

Open Skies - African Nations to pilot Single Air Transport Market

Intra-African air travel under the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), an initiative of the African Union to create a unified air transport market in Africa, is edging closer to reality, after 17 countries committed to a pilot programme.

At a meeting in Dakar on November 14, the ministers of transport and aviation from Cabo… read more