Travel
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Nigerian airlines set to hike fares again due ride in aviation fuel
The price of Jet A1, otherwise known as aviation fuel, has risen to N607 per litre in some airports in the country. This is the second time the price of the product would rise astronomically in one w…
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Russia bars EU and Canadian airlines in major hit back
Airlines on Monday braced for a potentially lengthy dispute after the European Union (EU) banned Russian airlines from its airspace and Moscow responded in kind, barring carriers from 36 countries in…
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London’s Heathrow records lowest annual passenger; first since 1972
London’s Heathrow airport, Britain’s busiest, saw its lowest number of passengers since 1972 last year and suffered wider losses as the coronavirus pandemic slashed demand for business travel and hol…
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Zimbabwe opens land borders to travelers after long closure
Zimbabwe has reopened its land borders to travellers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 or test negative for coronavirus. It follows a decline in the southern African nation’s daily infection …
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Philippines welcomes back foreign tourists for first time in two years
The Philippines welcomed back more than 200 foreign tourists on Thursday, becoming the latest Southeast Asian nation to reopen in a bid to revive a battered tourism sector after its borders shut to v…
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Australia set to open borders to vaccinated travelers, in bid to revive suffocated tourism industry
Australia said on Monday it will reopen its borders to vaccinated travellers this month, ending two years of misery for the tourism sector, reviving migration and injecting billions of dollars into t…
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Accra ranked top tourist destination in Africa
Ghana’s city, Greater Accra, has been ranked the number one tourism destination in Africa according to TIME’s 2021 World’s Greatest Places. The TIME’s 2021 World’s Greatest Places list which was rele…
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AirAsia changes name to Capital A in bid to broaden tentacles
Malaysia’s AirAsia Group Bhd said on Friday it had changed its name to Capital A Bhd to reflect its growing portfolio of businesses beyond the core budget airline. The airline business has been hard-…
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Travellers no longer require full COVID vaccination to enter Ghana
The Ghana Health Service has relaxed its guidelines for Ghanaians entering the country, allowing for unvaccinated or partially vaccinated Ghanaians and resident foreigners to no longer provide eviden…
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Ghana’s ecotourism contributes $1.2 billion to GDP in 2020
Ghana’s ecotourism in 2020 contributed 1.2 billion dollars to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The contribution formed 5.5 per cent of GDP in the year amid poaching, logging, and illegal m…