Some Sh8.5 million was used to entertain permanent secretaries without the approval of the Kenya Tourism Board tender committee, a witness on Monday told a court hearing a fraud case against Tourism permanent secretary Rebecca Nabutola.

THE Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has bought modern equipment worth sh100m to monitor the rate at which climate change is shifting vegetation zones in the Rwenzori Mountains National Park, an official has disclosed.

The High Court has dismissed with costs an application by safari operators seeking an order restraining the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority from demanding a payment of two percent levy on hunting trophies in designated tourist facilities.

ZIMBABWE has sent a high-powered delegation to the United Nations to present the country's tourism development, promotion and marketing requirements and existing investment opportunities, as the country goes overdrive to re-penetrate the international tourist generating markets.

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The National Hajj Commission( NAHCON) should work out modalities for the commencement of a hajj savings scheme for Nigerian pilgrims as contained in the NAHCON Act, the Waff Road Mosque Forum has advocated.

Addressing a cross section of people from different walks of life during the launching of Lumley beach beautification program, the minister of agriculture and food security said Sierra Leone is blessed and lucky to have a natural beach.

JOHANNESBURG may not be regarded as a must-see destination for tourists, but as a 2010 Soccer World Cup host venue, many of the city's attractions are likely to have an unprecedented number of visitors next year.

The General Manager of Oak Plaza Hotel, Dr. Joe Rahim, has assured Ghanaians that the hotel is poised to quality services to its clients, especially the traveling public.

Kenya's tourism, energy and agriculture sectors may be irreparably damaged unless the Mau destruction is reversed.

The Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board in Gombe State has announced fares for this year's hajj, which indicate a slight increase of between three and 15 per cent.

Kazungula District Council has refuted reports that it is levying tourists entering the town.

In what could signal recovery in tourism, TPS East Africa, the hotels and lodges company, has almost tripled its pre-tax profit for the fist six months of 2009.

SA CAN accommodate up to 1-million health tourists each year and is ideally placed to the become the destination of choice for medical and cosmetic surgical procedures, Cawe Mahlati, the organiser of the inaugural Health Tourism Congress, said yesterday.

If there was one more needed proof that government is a bad business manager, it is shown in the poor state of the nation's airports , which from inception, have been under the management the Federal Government .

Reduction of water in River Mara, whose origin is in the Mau Forest, and which traverses the expansive Maasai Mara game reserve right into Serengeti in Tanzania, is causing the shrinkage of the world famous annual wildebeest migration, which may

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The festival will feature over 100 cheeses for sampling, four tasting seminars, two cooking demonstrations and more.