Areas around the Volcanoes National Park in the Northern district of Musanze were all so eager for the gorilla naming event held on Saturday June 22, 2013, attracting people from different parts of the world to be a part of the event. This was the ninth ‘Kwita Izina’ as it is called and this […]
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Rwanda is all set for the up coming 9th baby gorilla naming ceremony commonly called the ‘Kwita Izina,’ and with this event, all tour operators in Rwanda are so hopeful that the event will continue to expose the country to the rest of the world if they promote it world wide. This festival started […]
The Rwanda Development Board anticipates an increase in the amount revenue that will be collected from the sector this year. The amount is expected to almost double to $440 million by the end of the years from $282 million that was collected in 2012. The head of tourism and conservation at RDB Rica Rwigamba, said […]
There were over 385 stray animals that have been guided back into the Akagera National Park after the installation of an electronic fence around the park sometime back. Local leaders and Rwanda Development Board say there were some animals that will be left out of the fence and they had become a huge problem […]
Rwanda will be holding this year’s Kwita Izina ceremony on 22rd June from Musanze and it is organized by the Rwanda Development Board’s department of tourism and conservation. This year’s ceremony will be the ninth of the kind and will see over 12 baby gorillas aged between two weeks and eleven months old get […]
There are students and academic staff who are under the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (Atlas) that are meeting in Kigali to discuss ways of improving tourism in Rwanda as well the whole of Africa. This is the 8th Atlas meeting and it is being hosted by Rwanda Tourism College (RTUC) and it was […]
Rwanda has had the honor to host a two-day international conference that started on yesterday 3rd June and end on 4th and it will attract will attract different scholars from the travel and tourism industry. This is according to the event organizer at the Rwanda Tourism University in Kigali. The conference will be held […]
The local that are living around Volcanoes National Park are so happy about this year’s Kwita Izina ceremony under the theme celebrating nature where they give names to all the gorillas that have been born in the year. They said that gorillas have tremendous changed their lives. The volcanoes is a home to almost half […]
Stanislas Kamanzi who is the minister for Natural Resources said that there is still a lot of effort that is still needed to preserve rare animal and plant species in the country. He said so during a briefing the media on this year’s World Environment Day and National Environment Week campaign that started over […]
The Rwanda Development Board’s Tourism together with the Conservation Department will be holding their annual Kwita Izina Gorilla Naming Ceremony for this year on 22nd June at Kinigi just outside the Volcano National Park and during the event, about a dozen newborn gorilla babies will be given names. One of these gorillas was born […]