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Zambia imposes new airport security tax

Thursday, January 6th 2011

The National Airports Corporation Zambia has introduced a security charge payable at all NACL airports in Zambia, effective from the beginning of January 2011. The charge is effective at Lusaka, Livingstone, Ndola and Mfuwe and can be paid at the same time as departure tax. It applies to all scheduled and charter passengers departing from any NACL airport. The new security charge is US$3 per person per sector on...

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Response to security concerns South Africa

Thursday, December 2nd 2010

Following the media frenzy in UK after the brutal murder in Cape Town last month, an ATTA ground operator in Cape Town has sent this email to a client in response to their fears about safety in South Africa following the continued negative press coverage in UK. We feel that this may be of help to anybody out there with similar concerns. Their email reads: "We...

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Confusion over Mozambique visa fees

Friday, July 16th 2010

The Mozambican Government has announced an increase in visa fees for tourists to Mozambique with immediate effect. This comes as a result of the introduction of the biometric system - currently enforced at Maputo (Malavane) Airport and the Komatipoort border. The cost of the visas has increased to US$82 per person, however at only these 2 points of entry at this time. The increase apparently kicked in on the 6th of July when tourists...

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Tanzania Plans for Serengeti Highway

Wednesday, June 23rd 2010

The government of Tanzania recently approved a major commercial truck highway across the Serengeti. The US$480 million highway is planned to link Arusha and the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya through the Serengeti National Park, said Isidori Shirima, Arusha regional commissioner. Conservation organizations have warned that the highway would be destructive to the Serengeti ecosystem, as it cuts across the path of ancient wildlife migration...

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Five Black rhinos released in Serengeti

Friday, May 28th 2010

Five Black rhinos are released in the Serengeti in the 'most ambitious' relocation of large mammals project ever. The illegal trade in rhino horn in the 1960s & 70s pushed this rare species to the brink of extinction. From a peak population of more than 1,000 in the Serengeti area in the middle of the last century, only two females remained by 1991. Conservationists, concerned that the Eastern Black Rhinoceros would be wiped out in East...

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Joint visa for 6 SADC countries

Tuesday, April 27th 2010

Mozambique is amongst the first group of six member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) who intend to introduce a single visa, allowing tourists to visit all of them on the same entry visa. According to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Fernanda Matsinha the single visa, known as Univisa, will in its pilot phase cover Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland. It is to be...

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Elephants, Ivory and CITES

Wednesday, March 24th 2010

At yesterday's meeting of all CITES members in Doha, the application by Tanzania and Zambia to CITES to allow sales of ivory stocks and thereby suspend the 21 year old moratorium was turned down for fears that any sales would fuel the illegal sale of ivory. A resounding victory for elephant conservationists, although Tanzania have announced that they will appeal. Watch this...

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Single tourist visa for East Africa?

Wednesday, March 3rd 2010

The introduction of a single tourist visa for East Africa could be implemented by as soon as June 2010. The East African Community (EAC) ministerial council on Tourism and Wildlife Management considered a report of a task force study on the introduction of the single tourist visa in the East African community. A working plan piloting a single tourist visa has been developed and test runs are expected to involve nationals from South...

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Tanzanite Experience

Monday, February 1st 2010

The Tanzanite Experience is proud to announce the opening of the world's only Tanzanite Mine Visitor Centre in Merelani, situated only 70 km from Arusha, Tanzania. Learn about ethical and socially responsible tanzanite mining in a safe environment. You can also do down a proper mine shaft and have the opportunity to purchase well cut certified tanzanite from the onsite shop, where a tanzanite expert is on hand to answer any queries. On-site are...

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Kenya and Tanzania - one tourism destination

Wednesday, January 6th 2010

Kenya calls on Tanzania to jointly promote tourism The East African Community (EAC) is preparing a strategy to sell its five partner states (Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda) as a single tourism destination, and Kenya is now calling for a Memorandum of Understanding with Tanzania on the development and promotion of the industry. Promoting Kenya and Tanzania as one tourism destination would help remove bureaucratic barriers and...

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