Hotels have scaled down their renovation plans due to the ongoing slump in the tourism sector. This is being done in order to save resources as they anticipate the recovery of the tourism sector.

Hotels in Nairobi recorded an improved occupancy rate in the past two months following poor performance earlier in the year.

A Cabinet minister has allayed fears that ice caps on Mt Kilimanjaro that is a big tourist attraction in the region could disappear permanently.

South African Tourism (SAT), organising body for the annual Indaba, unarguably Africa's biggest tourism show could beat their chest for a successful 2008 edition which ended in the beach city of Durban on May 13, 2008.

I FIRST VISITED THE TAITA Hills a decade ago with James Mwang'ombe, the programme co-ordinator of the Taita Hills Forests Programme.

A TINY hilly country, with a population of about one million, endowed with ancient indigenous African traditional cultural practices and a number of scenic tourist attractions would be an apt description of Swaziland, the only surviving absolute monarchy in Africa.

Precision Air (PW) has suspended its flights between Mwanza and Bukoba.

The chairman of the Kenya Tourism Federation, Peter Karanja, has announced incentives to encourage professionalism in the budget segment of the industry.