Daily Archives: April 1, 2015

U.S. Department of State Discontinues Additional Passport Pages

The U.S. Department of State will discontinue the practice of adding pages to passports and, instead, require a filled passport to be replaced with a fresh book.  Documentation will have to be submitted by December 18 in order to have the extra pages added before the new policy takes effect. New passport holders on the…

Kenya Airways $250 Agent Bonus is Back

For NEW GROUP bookings made and deposited through 30th April 2015 Booking agents will receive $250 when booking groups with Kenya Airways from USA to Nairobi / Entebbe / Kisumu / Lusaka / Lilongwe / Kigali / Zanzibar/ Kilimanjaro / Dar Es Salaam / Gaborone / Mombasa / Harare / Johannesburg / Addis Ababa and…

KTB STATEMENT: UPDATED FCO TRAVEL ADVICE FOR KENYA COAST

In accordance with the update on 27th March 2015 by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to the UK’s travel advice for the Kenya coast, the Kenya Tourism Board would like to clarify that the revised advice advises against all but essential travel within 15km of the coast from Tiwi up to the border with Somalia.…

APTA Member Beks Ndlovu speaks out on boycotting tourism to Zimbabwe

CEO of African Bush Camps, Beks Ndlovu, has penned a sobering open letter to the travelling public, which he shares here for the sake of anyone in the industry dealing with objections surrounding the intention of Zimbabwe’s Wildlife & Parks Service’s to export wildlife, particularly live elephants, to foreign countries. DBB Syndrome – DEATH BY…