Daily Archives: June 30, 2016

Invitation to Welcome Ethiopian Airlines to New York

In another remarkable development, Ethiopian Airlines has broken a Guinness World Record for making the largest ever human image of an Airplane on June 29, 2016. The event was part of Africa’s first Airbus A350 XWB delivery and 350 Ethiopian Employees have gathered at Ethiopian Maintenance hangar to create an image of the actual A350…

Born to Live Wild pledge gets global tour operator support

Blood Lions says it is proud to be able to launch the “Born to Live Wild” pledge, which has become a central part of what the overall campaign is trying to achieve. It announced that as a follow on from the initial pledge ‘document’, a new page has been added to the website, where an…

Neptune Hotel destroyed by deadly inferno

Property worth millions of shillings was destroyed after a deadly fire razed the popular Neptune Hotel in Diani beach, Kwale County on Tuesday, June 28. More than fifty tourists had to be evacuated as the fire spread. Fire fighters from the Mombasa County fire department and Kenya Navy were called in to try and contain…

Tanzania maintains VAT charge on tourism

ARUSHA, Tanzania – The Tanzanian finance and planning minister, Dr. Philip Mpango has defended the proposal to introduce Value Added Tax (VAT) on tourism services.    Presenting the Tanzania 2016/17 budget proposals in Parliament two weeks ago, Dr. Mpango said the government would impose VAT on tourism services, such as park fees, ground transport services,…