Archive for the Category: Wildlife and Sustainable Tourism
Tanzania stops the Serengeti Highway
The Tanzanian government should work on the heavily criticized Serengeti Highway have stopped. The USD 840 million project would cut through the northern part of Serengeti, over 300 miles, thereby disrupting the world famous migration (migration) of more than 1.5 million wildebeest and half a million zebras and antelopes in part.
Conservationists and tourism companies have this plan [...]
Cycle Tourism in Germany - 2008 figures
The German Tourism e. V. has again its annual leaf "Figures - Data - Facts" published.
I would like to pick just one topic of many, because I am particularly interested in regional - the bicycle tourism. In the present days of summer is my city, Wittenberg, full of cyclists, the bike path along the Elbe, one of the most popular cycling [...]
Web 2.0 to protect the Maasai Mara
This time on Web 2.0 for the preservation of our environment and we need to breathe (in the literal sense) marketing for one of the most beautiful regions of our planet.
Here is shown an example, how can the full range of Web 2.0 tools are used (blog, video, images, comments, Twitter).
The migration of more than a million wildebeest between Kenya and Tanzania is one of the [...]
East Africa's common visa still on hold
Picture: African Safari and Tours Copyright EDSA, Uganda
For over three years, as the Kenya Tourism Board took the initiative, now working five East African countries Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi to reach them on a uniform visa for all countries. The traveler entering tourist could now be without the necessary stops at the borders and the [...]
Kerala Tourism offers 500 tours online
The Kerala Tourism website www.keralatourism.org offers more than 500 tour packages online as part of their "dream season" campaign.
Kerala wants to the season, which traditionally go from December to late March expand.
The monsoon season (frequent rainfall and high humidity) is the best time for Ayurvedic treatments, a romantic stay aboard the houseboats on the backwaters or [...]
Report from the U.S.: Nature tourism is declining
TravelMole from the UK / Australia / USA Today reported on a study of the Illinois Universtät about declining numbers in nature tourism.
RWPergams Oliver and Patricia A. Zaradicý report is that after falling over 50 years constantly growing number of visitors in the U.S. national parks since 1987, the numbers again.
To verify this and to check whether it is a [...]
Kenya's wildlife tourism in huge problems
The political unrest leading to an existential threat to tourism in Kenya. Certainly, the tourism industry in Kenya has been through hard times, but this time it goes to the fundamentals of existence, because domestic unrest, refugee flows and dissolution of the state structure are not as quickly compensate and external sources attributable disasters (Al-Queida bombs, tsunamis o . etc.).
What worries me in particular [...]
Kerala has again won two gold medals at the PATA
Also this year, "Gods own country" Kerala won two awards in the south of PATA.
An award in the category of culture to the place of Aranmula, who introduced together with the United Nations Development Program and the federal government launched a program the Endogenous Tourism Project (one of three locations in India).
Another [...]
A visa for all five East African countries
The heads of the tourism offices of the five East African countries Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi to seek a visa that allows tourists to travel to all five states.
At their meeting in the last week in Kampala, Uganda were discussed different ways to market the region as a single tourist destination. This visa fees are uniform and open [...]








