The Department of Tourism is fighting back, following the robbery of Dutch tourist late last month, the department is teaming up with Gauteng Tourism Authority to create job opportunities for unemployed youths and address safety issues.

Today they launched the monitors’ programme that aims to enhance the visitor experience as well as improve the safety of tourists. CNBC Africa’s Lubabalo Mashiqana filed this report.

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Swahili International Tourism Expo occurred in Tanzania, on October 13–15,at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Center.

The event showcased the travel possibilities in Tanzania ,within the 16 National Parks, around Mount Kilimanjaro and on the Island of Zanzibar. Conservation and sustainable tourism, as well as tropical tourism and travelling within East Africa, were additional subjects the expo expanded on.The 2016 International"...

(AETOS Wire)-- The fourth edition of the prestigious World Branding Awards saw 245 brands from 32 countries named “Brand of the Year” in a glittering ceremony held in the main entrance and Orangery at Kensington Palace today.

Global tier winners included Apple, Beijing Tong Ren Tang, BMW, Cartier, Club Med, Coca-Cola, Facebook, Google, Lego, L'Oréal, Louis Vuitton, McDonald's, Nescafé,"...

The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture is proposing the setting-up of “Akwaaba Hotels,” through a partnership with the private sector at various tourist sites in the country to boost domestic tourism.

Tours Facility Manager of the Ghana Tourist Development Company (GTDC), George Adje Kwei Mensah, who disclosed this said the hotels which would be set-up between two to three years, would be affordable for indigenes to patronize tourist"...

Tanzania's public tourism body said on Tuesday it will host an in-door International Tourism Expo, known as the Swahili International Tourism Expo in the east African nation's commercial capital Dar es Salaam.

The three-day tourism expo to be held on Oct.13 has attracted Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Mauritius, South Africa, Malawi, Ethiopia, Namibia, Zimbabwe and India, said Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) Managing Director Devota"...

The Higher Committee of the 11th Red Sea Tourism and Shopping Festival has announced the launch of the festival between the first week of December 2017 and the last week of January 2018, deciding expansion of the opportunities for external participation to achieve the festival regionalism and globalism.
The meeting, which chaired by the Red State's Wali (governor) Ali Ahmed Hamid, discussed the general perception of the festival through the views and suggestions of the members, which dealt with the need for renewal,"...

The Minister of Tourism, Antiquities and Wildlife Mohamed Mustafa Abu Zaid has described tourism as a beauty-making activity and economic velocity-driving in various fields.
Addressing the country's celebrations of the International Day of Tourism Wednesday in the Nile River State in Bijrawiya, the minister said that tourism creates job opportunities in the economic, social and cultural fields. He called for concentration on beauty making in our tourist sites if we want to make tourism as a tool for sustainable"...

The government in Khartoum has welcomed the decision by US President Donald Trump to remove Sudan from the updated list of countries whose citizens are banned from travel to the United States. The Foreign Ministry described the decision as a positive development in bilateral relations between the two countries.

It is a natural outcome of a long and frank dialogue as well as joint efforts of many relevant institutions on both sides, said the ministry,"...

Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the Washington’s decision to remove Sudan from its travel ban list.

In a statement on Monday, the Ministry welcomed the presidential proclamation, announced by the American Administration on Sunday, by which Sudan was removed from the list of countries whose citizens are restricted from entering the USA.

The Ministry"...