SECOND ANNUAL
TANZANIA TOURISM AWARDS PRESENTED TO TRAVEL WORLD NEWS
AND ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES SPECIAL RECOGNITION: NEW YORK
UNIVERSITY
Presented by the Hon.
Zakia Hamdani Meghji, MP Tanzania Minister For Natural
Resources And Tourism At Opening Night Dinner of the
Africa Travel Association Congress, Conakry, Guinee,
April 29, 2002
Above- from Left:
Peter Mwenguo, Managing Director, TTB; Maryellen Schultz,
accepting on behalf of Travel World News; Hon. Zakia
Hamdani Meghji,MP, Minister for Natural Resources and
Tourism and ATA President; Esayas Woldemariam Hailu, GM
Ethiopian Airlines, Nigeria; Eddie Bergman, NYU Student
and Co-founder, Miracle Corners of the World.
(Conakry, Guinee, April 29, 2002)
--- The Tanzania Tourist Board Second Annual Tanzania
Tourism awards were presented by the Hon. Zakia Hamdani
Meghji, MP, Tanzania‚s Minister for Natural
Resources and Tourism and President of the Africa Travel
Association (ATA). The Tanzania-hosted Gala Awards Dinner
followed the official opening of the Africa Travel
Association‚s 27th Annual Congress, Monday, April
29, in Conakry, Guinee. The Awards dinner venue was the
Camayenne Hotel in Conakry.
The Tanzania Tourism Award
Recipients for 2002
Media Award 2002: Travel World
News
The first Award was for the Media providing the most
consistent coverage of Tanzania‚s Tourism products
and the 2002 Media Award was presented to Travel World
News, based in Connecticut. Publisher, Charles Gatt Jr.,
an ATA board member, has been promoting Africa as an
active member of ATA since its inception in Nairobi.
Travel World News, a monthly magazine geared to Travel
Agents, featured Tanzania in its monthly African sections
as well as its Annual Adventure Travel pull-out
guides.
Airline Award 2002: Ethiopian
Airlines
The second Award recognizes the Airline that has brought
the greatest number of tourists to Tanzania and the 2002
Airline Award went to Ethiopian Airlines. Ethiopian
Airlines provides direct service from the U.S. to
Kilimanjaro and Dar es Salaam, via Addis Ababa. The
Airline has promoted „Destination Tanzania‰ in
its marketing campaign in the US market. Its strong
support of Tanzania has also included tickets for press
groups and special group fares to that
country.
Special Recognition: New York
University
In addition to the TTB Annual Awards, Tanzania
presented a Special Recognition to the New York
University (NYU) School of Continuing and Professional
Studies (SCPS). Along with Miracle Corners of the World
(MCW), SCPS established the first American university
community outreach program in Tanzania, which will
include, among other disciplines, Tourism Internships. In
the summer of 2001, the Office of Special Programs at
SCPS organized a team of faculty and students to research
and identify opportunities for the School to send
students to Tanzania to perform internships or work on
independent study. These internships will span all
disciplines, School-wide, including the Tisch Center for
Hospitality, Tourism and Travel
Administration.
TTB Second Annual Awards
2002
A program has been approved and will be offered
beginning with the Summer of 2003. It will include the
following elements: developing a relationship with
cultural village programs so that NYU can send students
to various villages to work on specific projects and earn
credits toward their degrees; developing summer field
classes with NYU faculty leading students on field trips
studying ecology, culture, economics, tourism and
hospitality.
In addition to the above program,
NYU students Eddie Bergman and Heather Moore, co-
founders of the not-for-profit community development
organization, Miracle Corners on the World, (MCW) have
been promoting Tanzania through the continuous tourist
traffic of students, faculty and volunteers involved in
the Arusha program of MCW. Bergman and Moore have
showcased Tanzania at International forums with their
case studies and Tanzania project video presented at the
International Institute for Peace Through Tourism
(IIPT)‚s Spirituality Conference in Assisi, Italy,
Oct. 2001 and most recently at the IIPT First African
Conference on Peace Through Tourism, in South Africa,
March 2002.
According to Peter Mwenguo,
Managing Director, „we are recognizing New York
University, not just for the pioneering step taken
instituting Tanzania as a credit offering in the summer
course catalogue, but in order to showcase the fact that
these trips have opened doors for other American
universities to do the same.
Mwenguo, in naming the recipients
of the Tanzania Tourism 2002 Awards, noted that due to
the slow down of travel from North America following the
tragic events of September 11, TTB decided to postpone
presentation of the third and fourth categories of awards
until 2003. These last two award categories recognize the
tour operator that has sent the most tourists to Tanzania
and separately, the tour operator who has sent the most
clients to the Southern Circuit and Mafia
Island.
TTB established the Tanzania
Tourism awards in 2001 both to express its support and
appreciation to the travel professionals and media who
have worked hard promoting and selling Tanzania; and as
an incentive to increase the numbers of tourist to
Tanzania even more in the coming years.
For more information on Tanzania,
visit the TTB web site at: http://www.tanzania-web.com/
or contact the Bradford group, Tel (212) 447-0027,
mailto:bradfordmktg@aol.com
