News & Alerts
11 February 2012
The Sauti za Busara Music festival begins on Friday in the afternoon with a four-kilometre carnival parade,The annual music festival in Zanzibar is a showcase of the best and most exciting African music.
The festival includes more than 40 musical groups, hailing from Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, West Africa and Europe.
African Music - under African Skies. Sauti za Busara is the annual music event in Zanzibar read more
06 February 2012
The Africa Travel Association (ATA), and The Africa Travel and Tourism Association (Atta) marketing as Advancing Tourism to Africa, are pleased to announce that the two organizations have exchanged reciprocal memberships. This move is intended to set the foundation for ATA and Atta to work together to develop an extensive partnership which will provide added value for the membership of the two associations who seek to promote pan African travel and tourism."
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30 January 2012
SAA Joburg to Beijing
SAA introduce direct flights to Beijing, China today
The inaugural flight departs today Tuesday 31 January 2012 from Johannesburg to arrive in Beijing, China; on Wednesday 1 February 2012. These flights are available for reservations in the global distribution system (GDS) and via SAA’s website flysaa.com, the airline’s on-line website.
Introducing direct flights to Beijing is in line with SAA’s strategy to expand its network to A read more
27 January 2012
South Africa was named ‘The World’s Leading Sports Tourism Destination’ at a ceremony in Dohar, Qatar, last week. This World Travel Award payed tribute to all the hard work and commitment that has gone into making South Africa a world-class sports and events destination.
'Globally, sports tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry and with South Africa’s proven capability of hosting major events, as well as our significant infrastructure footprint, it mak read more
26 January 2012
Young people tweeting from BlackBerries and iPhones are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa with South Africans by far the most vociferous, according to new research published Thursday.
Kenya-based Portland Communications and Tweetminster published findings indicating Twitter in Africa is widely used for social conversation and is fast becoming an important source of information. More than 80 percent of those polled said they mainly used it for communicating with friends, 6 read more
24 January 2012
International tourist numbers expanded in 2011 despite the economic crisis, the Arab spring and Japanese disasters, and will hit one billion this year, according to UNWTO.
The number of international tourist arrivals grew by 4.4 percent to 980 million in 2011, up from 940 million in 2010, the Madrid-based United Nations World Tourism Organization said in an annual survey.
But while the number of visitors to Europe surged as civil conflicts drove many tourists away from sunspots i read more
23 January 2012
As many Atta members are travelling from all over Africa to Indaba in Durban in May, please note the new Yellow Fever requirements for South Africa.
As of 1 October 2011, a yellow fever vaccination certificate is required from travellers over 1 year of age arriving from the following countries in Africa considered as having risk of yellow fever transmission:
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi,
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire,
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23 January 2012
Britons try it the Kenyan way
Team GB members including Mo Farah and Paula Radcliffe are in the home of distance running, looking to find the secret to Olympic glory,
Take a sharp right turn when the rutted road from Eldoret climbs up to Iten, a tiny town of tin and wooden shacks perched on the precipitous edge of the Great Rift Valley, and you wind down a trail to Lornah Kiplagat's High Altitude Training Centre. "University of Champions", it says on the gate.
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22 January 2012
SAA to fly to Beijing
The first of SAA’s new nonstop flights to Beijing is due to take off from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo Airport on January 31. Beijing already attracts large numbers of South African corporate travellers and a growing number of tourists.
.“SAA is starting the route with an Airbus A340-600 with business class and economy class seats. Dileseng Koetle, the head of corporate affairs, said the first passengers were “a good mix of corporate and leisur read more
22 January 2012
FEDERAL AIRLINES
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SCHEDULE
CYCLONE WARNING
22 – 29 JANUARY 2012
CYCLONE FUNSO
20 JANUARY 2012
Federal Airlines will be discontinuing our Johannesburg / Nelspruit to Vilanculos, Mozambique scheduled services during the impending Cyclone FUNSO event. Estimated landfall is at sometime between 22 – 29 January 2012.
We are planning Normal operations on Sunday 22 January pending acceptable weather conditions. Normal op read more