Atta News & Alerts
05 November 2012
1Time Airline said Friday that all of its operations have been grounded with immediate effect after it applied for business liquidation.
The low cost airline that flies in southern Africa filed and operated under business rescue since Sept. 17. It said a financial consultant advised the company ‘‘there was no viable way forward to recapitalize the airline to a profitable state.’’
The firm says it had been in negotiations with creditors since March and read more
05 November 2012
Qatar Airways launches flights to Mozambique
Qatar Airways has launched scheduled flights to Mozambique, its latest on the African continent and tenth new route of the year.
The Doha-based carrier inaugurated the first of three weekly services to the country’s capital city of Maputo, gateway to Mozambique’s rich natural resources and a source for strong business.
Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker said the latest route marked yet a read more
05 November 2012
Botswana
Various reports have been circulating in the media over the past week that Botswana will stop issuing hunting licences from next year in a bid to protect the tourism industry.
Dereck Joubert, CEO of Great Plains Conservation respods
While this is not an official announcement from what I can tell, it is certainly consistent with the trend in Botswana and in other places in Africa. It is a move that we would support.
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05 November 2012
Botswana President Says No To Hunting
During a public gathering in Maun, Botswana on Sunday, President Ian Khama revealed that the Botswana government will stop issuing hunting licenses. Khama believes that the availability of hunting licenses has encouraged poaching in Africa and prevented the expansion of the tourism industry.
As of next year, the Environment and Wildlife Ministry will no longer sell licenses to citizens in order to protect wildlife in the Okavango Delta and the read more
30 October 2012
Tusk Trust announces that Ian Craig and Steve Trent will speak at the 18th annual Tusk American Express Conservation Lecture, to be hosted by BBC presenter Kate Silverton.
The two leading conservationists will explore how the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn is fuelling poaching across Africa as well as how we can stop the killing and stem the demand.
Ian Craig, one of the Founders of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, the Northern Rangelands Trust and a member of the Boar read more
30 October 2012
Atta announces a strategic marketing partnership with the UK based charity Tusk Trust
Tusk Trust is a dynamic organisation, which has 20 years’ experience initiating and funding conservation and community development programmes right across Africa
Tusk has earned a reputation for being non-bureaucratic and for maximising donor funds (on average 80% of net funds) reaching the field. The charity has supported more than 100 projects and invested over £16 million into the read more
24 October 2012
Atta CEO appointed tourism advisor to President Joyce Banda of Malawi.
In June 2012, Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda, announced the establishment of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Economy (PACE) at the first-ever National Dialogue on the Economy in Malawi, co-organised by The Brenthurst Foundation and the Government of Malawi.
Following the appointment of Atta CEO as International Tourism Advisor for (PACE) at that inaugural conference, a further two day private m read more
24 October 2012
The re-opening of Britain's Embassy in Madagascar after seven years.
The Ambassador, Mr Timothy Smart, will take up his appointment in Antananarivo this month, and the Embassy will be fully functional by March 2013.
This marks Britain’s full diplomatic re-engagement with Madagascar after the decision by the last British Government to close the Embassy in 2005. The new Embassy replaces the British Interests Section which was set up in the German Embassy in November 2008.
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19 October 2012
Atta announces a new strategic partnership with (SAA) South African Airways who will be the Associations lead sponsor for 2013/14
The two widely diverse companies, an international airline and a pan African tourism association, do in reality share similar profiles, both bringing tourism from all over the world to Africa. This new partnership between the African travel industry’s leading marketing company emphasizes the importance of the tourism industry to Africa’s read more
12 October 2012
Fly 540 to stop some internal Tanzania flights?
Industry sources have expressed concern that Fly 540 Tanzania have halted their operations from Dar es Salaam to Kilimanjaro and Mwanza but also Zanzibar, effective today, October 13 until further notice. The website shows no further flights available on these routes but the airline have been unavailable for comment. Operators are advised to check on flight availability until the matter is clarified by the airline.
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