Turkish Airlines, Turkey’s premier national flag carrier, has chosen to expand its fleet with an additional 10 Airbus A350-900 aircraft. With this latest acquisition, the airline raised its total number of A350-900s to 40, reflecting its growing trust in this modern widebody aircraft. The new order follows closely with an earlier agreement in August when […]
Female-owned companies propelled women to the pinnacle of the travel and hospitality industry in Uganda, when Nkuringo Safari Lodges CEO Lydia Eva Mpanga and Eugene Windt Nsubuga’s Swanair joined the stars of travel, tourism and hospitality at the World Travel Awards at a red-carpet reception held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), in Nairobi, […]
DPO Group the largest and the fastest-growing African payment gateway announced that DPO cards are 3-D Secure (or 3DS) enabled! This means client on holiday travel in Africa can now transact on 3DS-enabled websites seamlessly with both DPO physical and virtual cards. The 3DS protocol is an additional security layer for online card transactions. With […]
The park authorities appealed to the public, especially those transiting through protected areas to take precaution and avoid putting themselves in harm’s way. On 25 January, 2021, a traveler was trampled to death by an elephant at Uganda‘s Murchison Falls National Park, while passing through the park to Arua town in West Nile. A statement […]
Uganda President H.E Yoweri Museveni on Friday 22 October, 2021, commissioned the Entebbe International Airport Covid-19 laboratories for mandatory testing of all incoming passengers through the national airport. The lab is to be used for mandatory COVID-19 testing of all incoming passengers both vaccinated and unvaccinated through Entebbe International Airport. The measure is intended to […]
Global Tourism Film Festival (GTFF) is a groundbreaking Film Festival presenting films which have the power to raise awareness about the vital role destinations play in the success of cinema and television. Global Tourism Film Festival, a world-first nomadic Tourism Film Festival is produced to be held in support of tourism destinations and local economies […]
To celebrate World Lion Day (#WorldLionDay), Bradt Travel Guides, United Kingdom based leading independent guidebook publisher, Bradt Travel Guides drawn up a list of their favourite destinations to get up close and personal with the ultimate big cat. According to the travel guide books publisher, the largest African carnivore and undisputed top land predator, the lion is also the […]