Emirates and Airlink have announced an interline agreement, widening Emirates’ reach into Southern Africa as countries begin opening their borders for travelers. Emirates and Airlink have announced an interline agreement, widening Emirates’ reach into Southern Africa as countries begin opening their borders for travelers. Emirates’ agreement with Airlink will provide …
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Emirates today has announced it will restart services to Entebbe, Uganda on 1 October 2020 and Muscat, Oman from 2 October, bringing the total number of cities served by the airline to 94. Emirates is gradually resuming operations and rebuilding its network to provide more opportunities for travel, sparing no …
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Domic Tugume is the winner of recently concluded ‘Take on the Pearl of Africa campaign’ organized by the Uganda Tourism Board. He was then treated to a luxurious trip to Sipi Falls in Kapchora. Tugume just returned from a full expenses paid trip to Mbale and Kapchorwa courtesy of the …
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Uganda Tourism Board has Friday September 11 launched a domestic tourism campaign dubbed ‘Take On The Pearl’. The 8-week long campaign is aimed at jump-starting the country’s tourism with much emphasis on the domestic market, in addition to putting a spotlight on some of the country’s prized tourist attractions. Addressing …
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The 2020 Miss Tourism Uganda beauty pageant activities have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The cancelled activities include regional crowning , national boot camp and national crowning of 2020. According to Kanyike Allan Bwette, the Chief Executive Officer of Miss Tourism Uganda, with covid-19 they were left with …
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The World Health Organisation has warned that the coronavirus pandemic could overwhelm already strained public health systems in Africa. Despite considerable investments in the past five months, Africa’s healthcare infrastructure remains gravely inadequate. The average doctor to patient ratio of 1:5,000 is still far short of the World Health Organisation …
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The tourism private sector associations under their umbrella Uganda Tourism Association (UTA), has asked government to reopen Entebbe International Airport in order to facilitate different tourism activities currently at a standstill due to its continued closure as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. Uganda closed the airport on March 23 effectively …
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Rwandan airports on Saturday reopened to international travellers, more than four months after the East African nation suspended commercial passenger flights to mitigate the Covid-19 outbreak. The suspension didn’t affect cargo and emergency flights. Tourists travelling by charter flights had been allowed to enter the country that is famous for …
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Emirates today rolled out a brand new, state-of-the-art online gateway to serve its travel trade partners around the world. Tailored for each market, and personalised for each partner to cater to their unique business environment and needs, the Emirates Partners Portal is a one-stop shop for travel industry partners to …
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Emirates customers can travel with confidence, as the airline will cover medical expenses of up to EUR 150,000 and quarantine costs of EUR 100 per day for 14 days, should they be diagnosed with COVID-19 during their travel, while they are away from home. This cover is provided by the …
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