Mar 23, 2016

ACCORHOTELS PARTNERS JOVAGO FOR AFRICAN DISTRIBUTION

Jovago and AccorHotels have announced the signing of an innovative partnership to incorporate all AccorHotels established on the African continent on the Jovago platform - Africa’s top online hotel booking website.

The partnership would firstly involve the incorporation of 30 AccorHotels hotels located in 13 countries on the Jovago platform and then, the overall hotels of the group in Africa.

“AccorHotels is one of the largest players in the hotel industry in Africa.

“As Africa’s leading hotel booking platform, we are proud to incorporate AccorHotels into our platform in order to provide our African customers with high quality hotels in the key cities of the continent,” said Paul Midy, chief executive of Jovago.

“This strategic partnership confirms our passion for hospitality and hotel development in Africa.

The AccorHotels’ portfolio will become a part of Jovago’s catalog of 25,000 hotels in Africa, further enabling customers to book a room directly through the jovago.com website and benefit from a personalised, locally based customer service available 24/7 in several languages.

“The partnership with Jovago highly contributes to establish our distribution strategy in Africa,” added Souleymane Khol, vice president, sales and marketing, Africa & Indian Ocean, AccorHotels.

“AccorHotels is in a continuous process of dynamic innovation aiming to always mix more efficiently the digital experience with our hospitality know-how.”

Mar 20, 2016

VISIT TO THE GLOBAL VILLAGE DUBAI

Are you in Dubai on coming in on a visit?, then the spectacular Global village, Dubai’s leading family entertainment and cultural destination is sure worth your visit. But you'll have to plan quicker cause the 2015/2016 season which opened on 3rd November 2015, will be

ZAMBIAN CAPITAL LUSAKA IS THE WORLD'S CHEAPEST CAPITAL TO LIVE IN

Lusaka, Zambian capital has been ranked as the cheapest cities in the world to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) while Singapore was named the world’s most expensive city.

Lusaka was followed on the EIU list by Bangalore and Mumbai in India.

Singapore was ranked ahead of Zurich, Hong Kong, Geneva and Paris as the most expensive.

London was sixth and New York seventh on the list which compares the cost of a basket of goods across 133 cities.

The EIU said India and Pakistan accounted for five of the 10 least expensive cities in the world.

The EIU charts the expense of cities by comparing them to the cost of living in New York.
Researchers said they saw considerable movement in the rankings as cities coped with economic factors ranging from the strength of the US dollar and currency devaluations to falling oil and commodity prices and geopolitical uncertainty.

“In nearly 17 years of working on this survey I can’t recall a year as volatile as 2015,” said Jon Copestake, an editor of the survey,

“Falling commodity prices have created deflationary pressures in some countries, but in others currency weakness caused by these falls has led to spiralling inflation.”

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Mar 13, 2016

BOTSWANA: THE OFFICIAL PARTNER COUNTRY OF ITB Berlin 2017

In 2017 Botswana will be the official partner country of ITB Berlin, the first partner country ever from Southern Africa . On 9 March 2016, at a press event at ITB Berlin, an agreement between the world’s leading travel trade show and Botswana was signed by Tourism Minister H.E. Tshekedi Khama II and Dr. Christian Göke, CEO of Messe Berlin GmbH.

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John Dramani Mahama, president of Ghana, announced the new measures during the country’s 59th independence celebration.

March 6th was an important day for Ghana, as the nation celebrated its independence day. During the event, president Mahama announced that starting this year’s July, all the 54 African Union (AU) citizens will receive arrival visas when visiting Ghana, as the country currently allows free entry only for the citizens of 15 countries from the Economic Community of West African States.

NEW LAW TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON FLIGHTS

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Mark Warner (D-VA) have introduced legislation to combat human trafficking on commercial air flights. The Stop Trafficking on Planes (STOP) Act would require training for certain airline industry employees to recognize and report suspected human trafficking to law enforcement. The legislation builds on the voluntary Blue Lightening Initiative currently administered by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation. This bill has been endorsed by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA and a companion version of the bill has been introduced in the House by Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Barbara Comstock (R-VA).

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Kenya is all set to participate in the International Tourism Bourse (ITB) Berlin travel trade show to be held in the German capital from March 9 to 13. Kenyan Tourism Cabinet Secretary (Minister) Najib Balala will lead representatives of the country’s tourism sector to the ITB event.