The Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is to use the 2010 FIFA World Cup to help it achieve the various targets of the Accelerated and Shard Growth Initiative of South Africa (AsgiSA).

Angolan citizens will, from now on, benefit from multiple entry visas to South Korea, reads a press release from Angolan embassy to the Asian country.

The increase of number of air links between Angola and Brazil and facilities in granting work visas were some issues discussed on Monday in Luanda, by the first deputy speaker of National Assembly, and a Brazilian senate delegation.

Hundreds of residents of the northern Mozambican city of Pemba marched through the city to Wimbe Beach, one of Pemba's main tourist attractions, on Sunday, in support of the call for the Bay of Pemba to be admitted to the

Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) is set to partner with the French embassy in Nigeria to showcase rare sculpture and paintings of students in the country's tertiary institutions in Enugu tagged "Life in my city".

THE long-awaited hotel and shopping complex project of the United Africa Group in the heart of Windhoek is set to finally kick off, but under stringent conditions and in several stages until 2011.

Charter flights to Mombasa by Italian firm Blue Panorama are set to resume in July, Tourism minister Najib Balala announced.

Any attempt at helping Kenya's tourism sector recover from the ravages of the post- election crisis should canvass for support from all stakeholders.

THERE was no question of eating out for less than $1 billion at Sitar, Newlands, on Monday, after working rather late.

Five international hotel chains have submitted requests to build new hotels in the northern Mozambican city of Pemba, according to the city's mayor, Agostinho Ntawane.

Rwandans wishing to travel to Belgium are subjected to inhuman treatment when applying for visas, The New Times has established.

In the latest attempt to revive the country's flagging industry, Virgin Atlantic will Monday unveil a £250,000 (Sh30million) advertising campaign aimed at attracting tourists back to the country.

Kenya Airways will resume direct flights to Paris on June 10 after a three months suspension following post-election violence.

In response to the growing popularity of Qatar Airways' daily flights between Dar es Salaam and Doha, the airline has opened spacious new offices in the Elia Complex at the junction of Zanaki and Bibititi roads in the Tanzanian capital.

SOME 22km to the south of Busia is the dismal one-street town of Majanji. However, in utter contrast to the miserable urban centre, just a few minutes' walk down the road, is Sangalo Sand beach; the undisputed jewel of Busia