Tourism News

Airlines and tourist boards need to start working closer together for mutual benefit in route development. Speaking at WTM London in a session entitled how destinations and airlines can work together to attract more business, easyJet UK country manager Ali Gayward said there are…

What’s the last thing you’d expect to find on a tiny archipelago 140 miles out in the Gulf of Guinea? A pair of Victorian traction engines? Turquoise sparrows? West Africa’s biggest swimming pool? Weirdly, you can find all of them on STP, or São Tomé…

The team of Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) headed by a former banker and journalist, Akwesi Agyeman, as acting chief executive officer, since coming on board has never hidden its intention to transform the country’s tourism industry by turning the pages and drawing up…

Ghana is set to be the first African country to host the World Tourism Forum –Africa Summit which will take place on 10 October 2017, at the Kempinski Gold Coast City Hotel in Accra. The event which will have President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the Special…

The villagers of Tafi Atome, in Ghana’s Volta Region, grew up listening to tales of their spiritual links to the 1,000 or so mona monkey that inhabit the surrounding lush forest. But they have also turned that reverence into revenue, by making the cheeky…

The best place to have an integrated complex experience of safe beaches and Ghanaian touch beach resorts are the Western Region. The western Region is located in the southwestern part of Ghana and shares its west boundary with the Republic of Cote D’Ivoire. The…

Lake Como in Italy has become the first “electric” destination in Europe thanks to a pioneering new initiative designed to reduce pollution and facilitate the easy use of electric cars, bikes and boats for the first time. Como – The Electric Lake is the…

Every city has its icons. They can be symbolic buildings or impressive services. Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center is both. As one of the very earliest international hotels in town, the hotel has never failed to draw both new and returning guests. The…

While Ethiopia, the oldest country in Africa and the country that has never been colonised, shied away for years from exposing the invaluable and priceless legacies that dotted its landscape, economic reality and democracy have aroused the country into opening its history and…

The hospitality and tourism is an important sector for many developing countries, since it is one of the main foreign exchange earners and key exports component. In 2016, foreign visitors to Africa reached 58 million with a spending of USD 40.7 billion approximately…