Tourism News
Mara gets new tour operating company
Tourism in Mara Region is set to expand in the coming months, thanks to a local investor Mr Simon Mseti, for establishing a new tour operating company based in Tarime. Nyakitari, a tradional dance group, performs at a local function. Goldland Tours Ltd will be offering tour and travel services to hundreds of tourists entering the country via the Tanzanian/ More...
Kenyan tourism players demand more for marketing kitty
Players in the multi-billion shilling tourism sector want an upward adjustment of budgetary allocation to the industry. This, they say, will help in marketing Kenya. Kenya Association of Hotelkeepers and Caterers More...
Uganda photograph tours, steps to follow to enjoy with Nature Adventure Tours & Safaris
I didn’t have a good camera, but I would have made a superb photographs. My sketches and lengthy descriptions of animals in Uganda reveal a traveler who observed everything with curiosity and recorded in colorful More...
Serengeti receives few local tourists
The number of Tanzanians visiting the world famous Serengeti National Park (SENAPA) for tourism purpose is less than 10 per cent, according to Park’s Tourism Department. Serengeti National Park People seem to More...
Kenya: Weak start to the year for tourism
Tourism industry started the year on a low, with the arrival numbers for the first two months of the year seeing a significant dip in the number of international arrivals. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport The More...
Hotel branches out to tour services
Goldland Hotel and Tours Ltd has introduced tour services for tourists visiting the country’s tourist attractions, including Serengeti National Park. Serengeti National Park “After successfully operating Goldland More...
Rwanda: Private investors to run tourism business in parks
Akagera and Nyungwe National Parks, two of the main natural reserves in the country, will soon accommodate private-owned touristic products that can boost tourism business. A park of deer, one of the attractions More...
New study highlights ten tourism sector impediments
New study has highlighted the greatest 10 impediments that deny Tanzanian players in the tourism sector the benefits from the East African community’s Common Market Protocol (EAC-CMP). Mt Kilimanjaro The study More...
Tanzania records significant increase in tourist arrivals
The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Amb. Khamis Kagasheki, said that tourist arrivals has increased from 867,994 in 2011 to 1,077, 058 last year, representing a rise of 24 per cent. Minister of Natural More...
Uganda: Tour operators demand better roads
Tour operators have urged the government to construct more roads and revamp the existing ones in light of improving access to tourism sites across the country. Tourists struggle through Bwindi National Game Park More...
