The local airline industry in Tanzania has been employing unskilled pilots therefore leading to grave disasters in the countries skies. The ministry of transport has recorded three out of the 12 aircraft accidents that happened in 2011 because of the unskilled pilots. Pilots in the country have been allowed to speculate into the skies no […]
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According to the ministry of tourism, wildlife and heritage recordings, the revenue got from gorilla tourism and the whole sector at large, 20% of the entrance fee has been given to the residents and the rest to the national treasury. For the past 30 years in Uganda, the primates have become one of the top […]
The tourism sector of Kenya has been searching for Shs 30 billion in the next coming years to increase infrastructures and tourism facilities in order to improve on the revenue. This means in the 2012 budget, the tourism sector needs more than Sh9 billion so that it can develop its products to compete with other […]
Researchers from the National University of Rwanda have discovered that Nyungwe rainforest which is located in the Southwestern area of Rwanda a harmful plant scientifically called serochochys scadens The buffaloes and elephants have been eating the plant but currently only five elephants have recorded remaining in the Kamiranzovu swamp near the area and all the […]
The source of the Nile in Uganda ,alluded to hazily in the ancient writings of Ptolemy,stood as one of the great geographical mysteries of Victorian Age. The desire to uncover the geographic holy grail inspired the epic journeys of exploration undertaken by Livingstone,Stanley,Burton and Speke.And it was the latter,John Hannig Speke,on a poneering 1862-3 expedition […]
In 2011 between January and September, the Dutch tourists increased by 30% challenging the number of European tourists by 6% in Rwanda. The head of tourism and conversation at RDB, Rica Rwigamba said the increase in the number of Dutch tourists ha been the continued attending of the annual Dutch tourism exhibition in Vakantibeur which […]
The use of a single visa in East African countries has been expected is fail as partner states have been hesitating on balancing the laws and regulations. The plan of using a single Tourist Visa had to be started in November 2006 but all this time the document has not been in existence. It has […]
The number of flights to a number of destinations have been increased by Air Uganda because of the increased love of passengers to travel in the East African region. The airline will operate on the Nairobi-Entebbe route three times a day during the week and those between Juba and Entebbe have also been increased .It […]
The Private Sector Federation (PSF) through its Tourism Chamber in Rwanda has held US$300,000 from Trademark East Africa to use it in the designing of an integrated approach that will improve and increase on the earning in the tourism sector. The new approach has been organized by the Quality Standards Task Force, which consists of […]
The government of Uganda has planned to build a fence around all the national parks to prevent more human-wildlife conflicts. The Uganda Wildlife Authority said the approach had aims to protect the villages near the parks from animals that have escaped from the park, to protect the angry locals from killing the animals and to […]