Two months after inaugurating the Dar es Salaam-Lusaka-and-Harare schedules, Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) has announced the launch of direct flights to Johannesburg. The Johannesburg route will be the fifth to be launched by the expanding airline within three years, since the company’s recovery plan started to be implemented by the government. Other international routes…
Ahead of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement of the First Budget, India travel services companies, issued the following statements with regard to pre-budget expectations: Mahesh Iyer, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. “The travel and tourism industry is a crucial contributor to the growth of the Indian economy with a…
US Department of Justice is expanding its Boeing inquiry, probing the charges that the 787 Dreamliner’s production was plagued with the same incompetence that dogged the doomed 737 MAX and resulted in hundreds of deaths. The federal prosecutors have requested records related to 787 Dreamliner production at Boeing’s South Carolina plant, where two sources who…
Airbus is saddened that one of its founding fathers, Roger Béteille, who not only shaped Airbus’ first commercial aircraft – the A300B – but also Airbus Industrie, passed away on 14 June at the age of 97. Born in Aveyron, France, in 1921, Roger Béteille studied at Supaéro in Toulouse before joining France’s SNCASE, which…
Thousands of people across the globe have come together protesting against the potential building of a controversial cable car on Mount Kilimanjaro, a World’s Heritage Site. In March 2019 Tanzania’s deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Constantine Kanyasu announced plans to install a cable car on Africa’s highest mountain, as a strategy to attract…
The Board of Directors at the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority (SLTA) has appointed Mrs. Beverly Nicholson-Doty as the organisation’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mrs. Nicholson-Doty has over three decades of industry leadership experience, including most recently serving as Commissioner of Tourism at the USVI Department of Tourism from 2007 to 2018. She brings significant experience…
The recently in Jamaica established Global Tourism and Crisis Management Centre is set to partner with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conduct research on the potential threat of Sargassum to the destination and wider Caribbean. Sargassum is a type of brown seaweed. Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where…
Jamaica Tourism Minister, Hon Edmund Bartlett has announced that he will be reviewing the report on the intensive island wide security audit of the sector soon. The audit was carried out by the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) with support from well-known international security expert Dr. Peter Tarlow of Safertourism.com Minister Bartlett, who made the announcement…
The construction of new Daxing International Airport, that covers the area of 1.4 million square meters and the terminal’s territory is equivalent to 25 football fields, has been finished in Beijing. The construction and inspection of the hub, which is located 46km south of downtown Beijing, was completed on Sunday. New Beijing’s hub is set…