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Marketing Africa Travel, Trade and Tourism in The Emirates. details. Training, Education, Networking at Home Based Travel Agents Forum. San Diego. Ca., May 24-details Weekly News from 'Uganda - East African and Indian Ocean Region By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome. Latest articles . Archives Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Beyond: More great events: March - Paralympic Games and Globe 2010, World's Biggest Enviro Business Expo in March. May- World Culinary Travel Expo. June - World CLIA Cruise 3Sixty - September - World Airlines Routes Development Forum. Africa Travel Magazine Editorial Team welcomes Africa participation . ATA 35th Annual Congress Pre and Post Tours, Senegal and Mali. cultural tours . desert festival tours . river cruise and tours. What attracted you to Rwanda? I was attracted to what I was hearing and reading about the rebirth of Rwanda. It is amazing to see a nation that has been through so much; that it has reconciled, rebuilt,and reinvented itself in such a short period of time. I wanted to be part of such a positive and promising transition. Griffin Richards South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup There is no shortage of accommodations for this year's World Cup. A recent audit shows that there are in excess of 200,000 rooms for the use during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. There are 9 host cities in various parts of the country where the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ matches will take place. While you're here we encourage visitors to take the time to explore the attractions and activities in these cities and the surrounding areas. It's your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make this your very own African adventure. Sthu Zungu, President, South African Tourism North America, more Africa On Air with Ghana Tourism TravelTalk Radio's Sandy Dhuyvetter's interview Julius Debrah, Executive Director of the Ghana Tourist Board. This feature is timely, with West Africa on the agenda for the Africa Travel Association 35th Annual Congress. Ghana, an ideal destination for pre-post tours is showcased prominently in our Western Africa World Edition and Global Venues Bulletin - to be launched for that occasion. Listen United Airlines Announces First-Ever Service to Africa Nonstop service to the African continent, with once-daily service linking Washington with Accra, the capital of Ghana, beginning June 20. more Cruise Africa's Exotic Ports of Call During her career as a Travel Agent in Tahiti, Moroccan born Muguette Goufrani, our Associate Editor, worked for Matson Lines. Visiting West Africa on a cruise from Europe along the Gold Coast and Ivory Coast, she ended up with Air Afrique in Abidjan for several years, where her mother was with the U.S. Embassy. Ms. Goufrani's views on Cruising Africa will appear in our Global Venues Edition. More Tell us about your cruise experience: airhwy@smartt.com Opportunities in Tourism Real Estate April 15 - 18, 2010 At the Arsenale of Venice- Italy. First international Expo&Conference  dedicated to Real estate tourism. Aworldwide symbol of stylish welcome &endash; will be the location of the new exhibition TRE - Tourism . Continued Africa Travel Magazine scores #1 on Google and Yahoo for many Africa topics, which is why our library will be so valuable to those who are seriously interested in marketing Africa travel, trade and tourism. For starters, we have over 24 editions in four unique series: Regional Tourism, Best of Africa, Marketing Africa Worldwide and Faces of Africa - More on the way! SEYCHELLES TOURISM •. CHEAP FLIGHTS . • LETTERS . .- NEW HOPE FOR WILDLIFE Read "To Timbuktu for a Haircut" One finds the time to do the things that are important to them - and both travel and writing are important to me. The trip itself came about when I planned a month away, on my own, without my wife along. One evening she said, "Why don't you just go to Timbuktu...?" I thought that was a brilliant suggestion! Long ago, I spent many years as a periodic travel writer, and before being at Tourism Vancouver my career included an active role with a book publishing company. Rick Antonson Interview Editor's Blog: Africa Calls When Jack London wrote "Call of the Wild," he captured the lure that grips us each year when spring is in the air. In other words, there is absolutely no way, we would miss an ATA Congress in Africa - as history, the pharaohs and good friends from past occasions beckoned. This was the 14th ATA Annual Congress we have attended since Africa Travel Magazine was launched in 1995. As in most of the ATA Congresses and Symposia in Africa, our complete editorial team of Jerry W. Bird, Karen Hoffman and Muguette Goufrani, played an active part. More Companies to spend more on digital and online advertising and marketing than on print. For the first time ever, according to a study released on Monday. Companies will spend 119.6 billion dollars on online and digital strategies and 111.5 billion dollars on newspaper and magazine advertisements and other print campaigns, according to the study by California-based Outsell. Outsell, which provides research and advisory services to the publishing and information industries, described the spending shift as "an industry milestone crossover .. more What is Tinapa? Preview from our West Africa edition. details on Nigeria's most exciting, far-reaching develoopment Seychelles: Major Ocean Security Conference The Seychelles will host a regional ports security conference between 26th to 28th of May to extensively discuss and devise strategies on how to better secure the sea lanes and offer shipping protection from the marauding ocean terrorists, aka Somali pirates. There is lingering suspicion that the pirate ranks have been infiltrated by figures from the radical Islamic militias fighting in Somalia, adding a hidden agenda to their 'ordinary' pirating on the open seas and a new dimension to the fight of the naval coalition members. More items by Prof. Thome South Africa courts Indian tourists The South African Tourism Department is bullish that by the year 2012 number of tourists from India will double to 100,000. According to representatives from the tourism department the small cities and event based tourism will be focus areas to increase the tourist arrivals. They also added, on an average a tourist from India spends around Rs 80,000 for 7-10 days in South Africa. full story Chobe Safari Lodge Open Soon Marasa Holdings, the owning and managing company for Paraa and Mweya safari lodges, has now put adverts into the local dailies aiming to recruit a full complement of staff for their soon to open Chobe Safari Lodge. This indicates that the opening of the reconstructed lodge is now only months away, and in fact much awaited by the country's tourism sector to allow the more regular use of the upper part of Murchisons Falls National Park above the water falls, where mostly a forest environment awaits visitors keen to see birds and forest animals, including elephant. Chobe, as previously reported, was in the 'old' days a favourite fishing lodge for visitors from all over Eastern Africa and further abroad, and when re-opened is also thought to offer regular fishing competitions for those keen to measure up against the fish in the river. Watch this space for announcements on opening dates in the near future. More items by Dr. Thome Importance of social media to budget travel The 6th annual Hostelworld.com hostel conference took place in Dublin at the end of January welcoming more than 400 hostel owners from around the world from Australia to Argentina. The conference this year focused on the rise of social and mobile marketing, and the roles they will play in the future of travel and other changes that are driving the travel industry. Delegates heard from travel experts and hostel owners on a wide range of subjects as well as from the most important people - the customers themselves. 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