IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the government of Mozambique today announced a new investment program that will help develop the country's emerging tourism sector.

Italian railway experts said that Eritrea is a major tourism destination in view of the fact that it is endowed with spectacular landscape and rich natural resources, coupled with classic locomotives as well as the prevailing peace and security.

So, the much expected revelations were never made. Understandably why most reporters who attended yesterday's press conference, granted by the General Manager of the Cameroon Civil Aviation Authority, left unsatisfied. We still have to wait (for another year?) to get

Against the backdrop of a recent maltreatment of 137 Nigerians on board the British Airways (BA), a group of Nigerians have launched a website against the airline to protest the development and apparently forestall a reoccurrence.

Angola's Hotels and Tourism minister, Eduardo jonatão Chingunji, worked on Monday in Caxito City, the capital of the northern Bengo Province, to assess the level of functioning of infrastructures that will accommodate tourists during the 2010 African Cup of Nations

On Monday, Kenya Airways marked the first anniversary since its plane crashed in Cameroon.

MAASAI Mara curio dealers lost business worth Sh120 million since December. The downturn in tourism, the curio dealers association said yesterday, led to loss of livelihoods of more than 2,000 people who depended on the industry.

THE first charter flight from Europe into Mombasa after post-election violence touches down at the Moi International Airport today with more than 200 tourists.

HYPROP Investments launched a planned R180m four-star hotel at Hyde Park Shopping Centre in Johannesburg yesterday, the first of its kind in the area.

VISITING Russian tour operators and agents yesterday said Zimbabwe was a safe destination with fascinating attractions that could easily attract hundreds of Russian tourists.

High fuel prices, growing inflation and increased competition is expected to impact negatively on SN Brussels airline this year.

Shortly after the disappearance of Wings Aviation aircraft and the misinformation that followed, everyone called on the Minister of State, Air Transport, to sack some departmental heads. His answer was simple: if we sack anyone now, we would never know

THIRTEEN tourists from three countries were involved in three separate car accidents along the coastal routes the past week.

Air Tanzania Company Limited to revive Dubai route as hired Airbus lands in Dar es salaam.

Some US-bound Nigerian passengers yesterday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, protested against their treatment by an American carrier, Delta Airline.

THE Zimbabwe Tourism Authority has targeted a yearly average of 50 000 tourists arrivals from Russia from next year, ZTA chief executive Mr Karikoga Kaseke has said.

Emirates Airline weathered increased fuel prices to record a 62 per cent profit in the last financial year.

Top officials of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) meet in Nairobi on Friday to discuss the safety standards of the national carrier, Kenya Airways.

Business at the Grand Regency Hotel has not been affected by the controversies surrounding its alleged sale.

The Federal Government has said it is set to confront the problem of multiple taxation and over taxation in the hospitality sector of the country.