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Barsa Chair, Fouad Canhye   South Africa’s aviation industry is an active enabler of industry in the region, sustaining 70 000 direct jobs in the country and around 1.1 million indirect jobs.  Barsa Chair, Fouad Canhye, noted this in his opening address to the 10th Anniversary Barsa Conference at the Houghton Hotel, Johannesburg, on March 7 and 8.  Thought leaders and key stakeholders in the Southern African aviation industry turned out in numbers. The delegates were drawn from domestic and international airline operators, air transport regulatory authorities, airport operators, aviation service providers, aviation and tourism associations, tourism marketing agencies, government departments and agencies, and research institutions.    The theme of the conference was ‘Moving Forward: Embracing Accountability for a Better Future’.  Daniel Silke. Source – Barsa Macro-economist Daniel Silke, in his presentation on Charting Economic Progress, gave a vivid picture...

Walk with lions in Kenya’s Maasai Mara 86 kilometres, one big African landscape and many, many predators. Lizzie Pook takes the ultimate walking safari There is something uniquely terrifying about finding fresh lion tracks while walking in the bush. Everything gets very quiet. Each rustle of foliage sends crackles of adrenalin darting throughout your body; each sound carried by the soft breeze makes sweat needle in your armpits, the crook of your elbows, the small of your back. I’m on foot in the Maasai Mara, where I’m spending four days traversing four different conservancies using just my legs as part of Asilia’s new Adventures offering. There are no vehicles. No luxury bush breakfasts. Instead, I’ve been walking for up to seven hours a day in the oven-like African heat, camping alongside riverbeds, in dense tangled forest and, at one point, in marshy swampland filled with boisterously loud toads. My guide is Roelof Schutte – an Afrikaner with icy, wolf-like eyes and the ability to m...

The first phase of the arrangement, which launches on Tuesday (19 March), allows Virgin customers to directly book flights on Kenya Airways’ route between London Heathrow and Nairobi. The codeshare will later be extended to allow Kenya Airways passengers to connect via Heathrow on to Virgin’s services to Caribbean destinations. Juha Jarvinen, Chief Commercial Officer at Virgin Atlantic, said: "As a fellow member of the SkyTeam alliance, we know our customers will enjoy a seamless travel experience, with more opportunities to earn and spend their miles with increased benefits for our SkyPriority members". Virgin Atlantic’s Gold and Silver Flying Club members, as well as Kenya Airways’ Asante Rewards Platinum and Gold members can use SkyPriority services at both Heathrow and Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International airport, including priority check in, baggage handling and boarding. Julius Thairu, Chief Commercial and Customer Officer at Kenya Airways, called the codeshare with Vi...

Mr. Karl Hala, Group General Manager, Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, host venue of HMCA Lagos 2024 By Renn Offor Organizers of the annual Hotel Managers Conference and Awards (HMCA) have unveiled Mr. Karl Hala, the Group General Manager of Continental Hotels in Nigeria as one of the spectacular faces and personalities to meet at the conference in holding on the 13th & 14th July, 2024 inside the Grand African Ballroom, Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos State, the economic Capital of Nigeria. "We create high networking opportunities with Hotel Managers Conference & Awards every year", Mr. Olugbenga Sunday, Convener and Managing Director of Tojum Hospitality, organizers of the event reveals. "The HMCA Lagos 2024 is a Pan African edition and we intend to create the most powerful and beneficial networking opportunities the African hospitality industry has never had by bring under one roof hospitality outfit managers from not less than 1...

Late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State By Renn E. Offor President, National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA) Mrs. Susan Akporiaye says the demise of Ondo state Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), is big loss to Nigeria's cultural tourism industry.  In a condolence message to the people of Ondo State and the Government, Mrs. Akporiaye disclosed that, "The late Governor had great plans to reposition the State's tourism sector and had mobilized front line local investors led by Otunba Wanle Akinboboye to open the many vistas of cultural tourism endowments in the State, with a pending promise to host the executive members of NANTA to a farm tour cum retreat in Akure early next year which could no longer hold.  Susan Akporiaye, President National Association of Nigerian Travel Agencies (NANTA) "We at NANTA mourn this great legal icon and tourism lover, and we pray that God accepts his soul and consoles his family,  wife and ch...

By Renn E. Offor It was a pleasant show of royalty and grandeur at the Royal Traditional Marriage when Eze Dan Emereonye, the Eze Egwelle 1 of Egwelle kingdom, gave out his daughter to Prince Engr. Ezichi Kalu Ulu at his Royal Grace Palace, Umuduruegwelle Autonomous Community, Ehime-Mbano, Imo State, on Saturday 23rd December, 2023. The Couple: Prince Ezichi & Princess Ijeoma at their Traditional Marriage The event was indeed a celebration of the legacy of Igbo culture and tradition as Princess Ijeoma John, daughter of HRH, Eze Dan Emereonye, the Eze Egwelle 1 of Egwelle kingdom, had her traditional marriage to her heartthrob and prince charming, Prince Engr. Ezichi Kalu Ulu from Ohafia, Abia State. HRH Eze Egwelle 1 of Egwelle Ancient Kingdom conferring with one of his sons at the Traditional Marriage Ceremony of Princess Ijeoma and Prince Ezichi The charming and beautiful presence of the bridal train added a pleasant color to the event with their beauty and outfits and dances. Br...