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Guiding local youths to sustainable careers in tourism

October 26, 2022911 Views

Avani Victoria Falls Resort launches ‘Youth Programme’ For their first joint community outreach initiative – the Youth Programme – The Royal Livingstone Victoria Falls Zambia Hotel by Anantara and Avani Victoria Falls Resort have partnered with SOS Children’s Village Livingstone and the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance (SHA), a charity dedicated to youth employment, environmental action and human rights protection. Designed to be a career launchpad for local youths, the six-month programme will offer a blended learning curriculum where lessons covering life skills combine with a theoretical hospitality foundation and English language classes, followed by work placements at Anantara and Avani in such departments as housekeeping, laundry, call centre, restaurant service, kitchen and s...

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Grand Egyptian Museum to display burial hoard of Tutankhamun

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October 20, 2022973 Views

ATELIER BRÜCKNER designs project of the century The soon-to-be-opened Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is the world's largest archaeological museum. Over an exhibition area of 40,000 square metres, more than 50,000 exhibits dating from the time of Egyptian high culture will be on show, including the burial hoard of Tutankhamun, which was discovered in 1922. The plans for the design of the exhibition gallery come from ATELIER BRÜCKNER in Stuttgart The legendary tomb of the child-king Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings exactly 100 years ago on 4 November 1922. In the Grand Egyptian Museum, the complete burial hoard will be exhibited for the first time. The exhibition design comes from ATELIER BRÜCKNER. "Truly a project of the century!", says CEO Shirin Brückner. Tut...

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Positive storytelling and digitalization key drivers of tourism recovery across Africa

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October 15, 2022895 Views

Building on UNWTO Agenda for Africa – Tourism for Inclusive Growth, the new agreement will see the two parties work together around shared goals and priorities. As a multichannel platform with reach across the continent, Ojimah will advocate for ‘Brand Africa’, enhancing the image of the region on the global stage through positive stories from across the tourism sector. The agreement will also see UNWTO and Ojimah collaborate in supporting the digital transformation of African tourism, with the aim of both enhancing the tourist experience and helping destinations become more competitive and resilient as they recover from the impacts of the pandemic. Additionally, recognizing the sector’s potential to advance sustainable development and growth, the partnership will focus on supporting l...

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Egypt calls for return of Rosetta Stone 200 years after it was deciphered

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October 6, 2022790 Views

Prominent Egyptian archaeologists have renewed a call for the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum to Egypt, 200 years after the deciphering of the slab unlocked the secrets of hieroglyphic script and marked the birth of Egyptology. The archaeologists' online campaign has gathered 2,500 signatures so far and aims to "tell Egyptians what has been taken from them", said Monica Hanna, acting Dean of the College of Archaeology in the Egyptian city of Aswan. The Rosetta Stone dates to 196 BC and was unearthed by Napoleon's army in northern Egypt in 1799. It became British property after Napoleon's defeat under the terms of the 1801 Treaty of Alexandria, along with other antiquities found by the French, and was shipped to Britain. It has been housed at the British Museu...

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Maasai villagers loose case against eviction from Serengeti National Park

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October 1, 20221060 Views

A regional court on Friday dismissed a case brought by a group of Maasai villagers claiming the Tanzanian government used violence to evict them from their ancestral lands in the north of the country. Rights groups said the ruling sent a dangerous message that indigenous peoples can be evicted from their land in the name of conservation. The government said four Maasai villages are located within the boundaries of the Serengeti National Park, which was originally demarcated under British military rule for gaming but redrawn for conservation by subsequent administrations. The land disputes between the Maasai villagers and the national park management emerged in 2012 but later in 2017 the government ordered the residents to leave and security forces later evicted them by force....

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Drought is killing Kenya’s endangered wildlife

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September 29, 2022377 Views

Kenya's worst drought in four decades has killed almost 2% of the world's rarest zebra in three months, and 25 times more elephants than normal over the same period. It is starving Kenya's famed wildlife of normal food sources out in the open and driving them into deadly conflict with people as they roam wider, to the edges of towns and villages, in a desperate search for sustenance. Andrew Letura, ecological and monitoring officer at the Grevy's Zebra Trust, kneels next to the carcass of an endangered Grevy's Zebra, which died during the drought, in the Samburu national park, Kenya, September 23, 2022. REUTERS/Baz Ratner Without interventions to protect wildlife, or if the approaching rainy season fails again, animals in many parts of the East African country could face an exist...

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Suspended sculpture transforms Cape Town museum’s atrium

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September 17, 2022563 Views

Moody, brooding and floating, Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa’s “The Five Continents of All Our Desires” is transforming the towering atrium of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town. Malagasy’s sculptures in black silk paper are suspended in the museum’s multi-story central atrium. The constructions form a massive, slowly moving mobile that suggests geographical archipelagos and play off the building’s massive concrete curving walls. An installation by Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa "The Five Continents of All Our Desires," is seen in the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht) The structure originally served as grain silos at Cape Town’s port, and the museum was c...

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Avian flu outbreak detected among Cape Town’s penguin colony at Boulders

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September 16, 2022841 Views

South African environmental authorities have confirmed four new infections and another seven suspected cases in a new outbreak of avian flu at Cape Town's Boulders penguin colony, a popular tourist attraction and an important breeding site, officials said on Friday. City and provincial officials said the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza was similar to that detected among a range of wild seabirds, including Cape cormorants and common terns, since May last year after a similar outbreak in 2018 killed hundreds of endangered penguins and other birds. African penguins, also known as jackass penguins, are the only species that breed on the continent but their numbers have been falling sharply over the years due to a loss of habitat and declining fish stocks. FILE PHOTO: Enda...

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Berlin museum approaches ethnological collection in new ways

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September 15, 2022439 Views

A Berlin museum opens fully to the public this week with a very modern take on the display of cultural items from around the world and the debate over demands for some of them to be returned to their homelands. The east wing of the Humboldt Forum contains items from the city’s Ethnological Museum and the Museum for Asian Art. It will display some 20,000 objects, among them dozens of Benin Bronzes that were stolen in Africa during colonial times — as well as an exhibit explaining to visitors how most of them are soon to return to Nigeria. Benin Bronzes, that were stolen in Africa during colonial times, are displayed in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. The Humboldtforum museum opens fully to the public this week with a very modern take on the display of cultural items from a...

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A burkini ban at Tunisian hotels called out as discriminatory

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September 14, 2022284 Views

On the second day of her stay at the Marriott Hotel in Sousse, Jannette Mensi waded into the swimming pool only to be told by hotel staff that she would have to get out due to her choice of swimwear -- a burkini. "I was shocked, my mind froze - I never thought this would happen to me in my own country," said Mensi, 68. The burkini, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, is worn by some Muslim women who wish to preserve their modesty and is commonly seen worn on beaches in Tunisia, a majority Muslim country. A woman, wearing a full-body burkini swimsuit, stands at a beach in La Marsa near Tunis, Tunisia September 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui But numerous high end hotels in coastal tourist towns have banned the swimwear from their pools - a policy that reflec...