Tag: africa
Another first for Safarilink Aviation
Safarilink Aviation successfully completed the IATA Standard Safety Assessment (ISSA) designed for commercial airlines and the airline is now on the ISSA registry....
Etihad increases frequencies to London Heathrow for its summer season
Etihad Airways, will boost its services from Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow during its summer operating period. The additional flights will be operated by...
Hilton Garden Inn Expands Footprint in Africa
Hilton Garden Inn, is celebrating strong growth in Africa with four open properties and an additional 14 in the pipeline just three years after...
SAA launches direct service to Guangzhou
South African Airways (SAA) will launch direct flights between Johannesburg and Guangzhou, China, on 18 September 2019.
This is yet another strategy implementation initiative aimed...
How do you make Africa attractive to Africans?
Ignore intra-African and domestic tourism at your peril. That’s the word from Rashid Toefy, Deputy Director- General, Western Cape Government Department of Economic Development...
Radisson Hotel Group signs agreement for three hotels to enter Madagascar
Radisson Hotel Group is entering its 32nd African market and second Indian Ocean territory, Madagascar, with the signing of a portfolio deal of three hotels...
SATSA launches Online Public Consultation on Animal Interaction in the tourism...
“The voice against tourism experiences that include animal interactions
has grown louder and louder and this has impacted on how South Africa is being
perceived as...
Ethiopian to launch flights to Marseille
Ethiopian Airlines has announced that it has finalised all preparations to launch a thrice-weekly service to Marseille, France as of July 02, 2019.
The...
Possibility of industrial action by some Comair Airport Ground Staff
On 16 April, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), issued Comair with a strike notice. This allows those airport ground staff...
JKIA takeover rejected
Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has rejected a proposal by national carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) to takeover operations of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA)...