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…
Boeing has been outsourcing software development to newly graduated programmers employed by third-party software developers – including Indian HCL Technologies Ltd and Cyient Ltd – that were making as little as $9 an hour, roughly four times less than their own experienced engineers who Boeing was actively laying off, Bloomberg has learned, suggesting that inadequate…
The African Tourism Board (ATB) welcomed World Fusion Tours as its newest member. The Kigali-based tour operator recently won the World Travel Awards category for “Rwanda’s Leading Operator 2019.” “We are pleased to welcome such a highly-recognized operator as World Fusion Tours to our membership,” said ATB Chairman Juergen Steinmetz. “They offer services for gorilla…
Tanzania tour operators are upbeat at the news that the government would execute the reforms highlighted on the blueprint to improve business environment. Wilbard Chambulo, the Chairman of the Tanzania Association of Tour Operators (TATO) told media shortly after the meeting with the President Dr John Magufuli at state House that tour operators want to…
Premier Maldives part of the Premier Destinations brand won Maldives’ Leading Luxury Tour Operator at the World Travel Awards 2019 – Africa & Indian Ocean red-carpet gala ceremony held in Mauritius on 1st June 2019. Premier Destinations is a company specializing in retailing luxury tailor-made holidays with accommodation and flights. The Company offers only the…