The Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) has made overtures with the energy sector in a bid to diversify Destination Uganda’s tourism products beyond the dominant wildlife-based tourism through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) to market the 600MW Karuma Hydro Power Dam and the 183MW Isimba Hydro Power Dams as infrastructure tourism products. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
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Dakar to New York City and Washington on Air Senegal now
Air Senegal launches new twice weekly flights to USA from Dakar, Senegal. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
More flights to London, Kyiv and Istanbul on Air Astana now
Air Astana announces increased frequencies to Ukraine and Turkey, resumes London flights. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Get a job: Denmark tells migrants to work for welfare benefits
The Danish government says six out of 10 migrant women from Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East are not employed. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
US leisure travelers staying home as COVID-19 cases soar
With COVID-19 cases rising and travel concerns mounting as we enter the fall and winter months, the hotel industry is at a pivotal point. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as its legal currency, Bitcoin crashes
El Salvador’s government was forced to take the country’s new digital wallet Chivo offline while it feverishly scrambled to boost server capacity. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
One dead, dozens missing in two-ferry disaster in India
Dozens of people missing after a two-ferry head-on collision in Majuli, India. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
US Constitution and Declaration of Independence now have ‘harmful language’
Raging political correctness lunacy does not spare US Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Carnival Cruise Glory cancellation of New Orleans departures
FEMA charters Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Glory to Provide Housing for Hurricane Ida first responders in New Orleans. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
FTA urges US transit agencies to increase vaccination rates
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is calling on transit leaders to share this information with employees, and to do all you can to encourage vaccination among your workforces. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Man sentenced to 5 years in prison for spreading COVID in Vietnam
28-year-old Vietnamese man lands a 5-year prison term for travelling and spreading the COVID-19 virus. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
San José to Reno-Tahoe flights on Southwest Airlines restart
Southwest Airlines temporarily suspended service between San José and Reno in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related travel declines. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Toronto to Las Vegas, Orlando, Tampa and Cancun on Air Canada Rouge now
Air Canada's leisure airline, resumed service today with flights operating between Toronto and Las Vegas, Orlando, and Regina, with other destinations being introduced in September, including Cancun and Tampa. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Bahrain Exhibition & Convention Center has a new GM
Dr. Debbie Kristiansen appointed General Manager of the new Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Center, due to open in 2022. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Americans don’t think the worst of the pandemic is over
Americans' confidence that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is over has decreased to 23%. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Aeroflot requires Pilots to be vaccinated
Six pilots working for Russia's main international airline have been grounded and suspended from duty under rules allowing companies to effectively dismiss staff who refuse to sign up for a vaccine against COVID-19 virus. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
65% of US airline passengers support vaccine passports
If the FAA decided to implement a vaccine passport program, nearly one in 10 travelers would be barred from boarding the plane. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
New Airbus Single-Aisle Airspace cabin adds comfort to Lufthansa flights
Lufthansa has once again made a choice of innovation and passenger appeal, raising the bar for the flying public at large to experience next-level, Airbus leading cabin innovations. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Farewell Le Professionnel: Iconic French star Jean-Paul Belmondo dies
Belmondo’s films were collectively viewed more than 130 million times at the cinema. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
730 bras and panties: Serial underwear thief arrested in Japan
The seemingly uncanny case of underwear theft is actually not so uncommon in Japan. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Europe’s summer air travel recovery fails
The countries which fared worst were those which rely more on long haul tourism, such as France and Italy and those which imposed the most onerous and volatile travel restrictions such as the UK, which languished at the bottom of the list, achieving just 14.3% of 2019 levels. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Guinea coup: President arrested, government dissolved, borders closed
It is known that the leader of the rebels - Mamadi Dumbouya - had previously served in the French Foreign Legion. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Prepare for lines when you fly from London Heathrow
Some Heathrow passengers were reporting absolutely absurd queue times due to a Border Force staff shortage which kept travelers waiting in lines for five hours. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Is it safe in Paris with massive protests and COVID?
Those who haven’t got the COVID-19 vaccine shot yet, or are not planning to at all, claim that the health pass diminishes their rights and turns them into second class citizens. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
4 people killed in Czech Republic and France plane crashes
Earlier on the same day, a light-engine plane crashed into the highway in northern France commune of Voignarou, killing two people on board. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Turkey tightens COVID restrictions for foreign arrivals
The updates are implemented in a bid to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, and are set to go into effect on Saturday, August 4. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Expo 2020 Dubai gets a special delivery from US Open
Outside of New York, the tennis bags will be distributed within some of Emirate’s gateways in the United States. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Hawaii worst state in the US for pet-friendly accommodations
The number of pet-friendly properties available can vary quite dramatically from place to place, making some parts of the country much more accessible to pet owners than others. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Apple shelves its contentious plan to scan private iPhones for illegal photos
Even Apple employees have reportedly expressed concerns with the detection technology, worrying that it could be used to work around encryption protections, that it could easily misidentify and flag some photos. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Lufthansa Group announces new Chief Strategy Officer
Jörg Eberhart will succeed William Wilms, who was appointed to the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik on 1 September 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News