Ministry of Culture and Tourism and stakeholders discussed on Tuesday tourism recovery strategy that enables the industry to bounce back.  The main objective of the new strategy is to make the tourism industry of Ethiopia bounce back to a fresh […]

Ethiopia has started disinfecting tourist attraction sites in Addis Ababa, the capital, as a part of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The disinfection measure was started at the National Museum in Addis Ababa and it will continue to other […]

Afro Message: Stay Safe Today To Travel Tomorrow. You remember the famous quote from Peter Drucker that goes ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast, if not for lunch or dinner’. What about the saying ‘Culture is the glue that holds organizations, […]

Travel to Ethiopia has always been full of adventures and surprises. Few years ago, as we travelled to a country side in the northern part of Ethiopia, a first time foreing traveler who sat beside me in a public bus […]

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a set of guidelines to help tourism sector emerge stronger and more sustainably from COVID-19. The guidelines highlight the need to act decisively, to restore confidence and, as UNWTO strengthens its partnership with […]

In the midst of cascading events the novel coronavirus pandemic has unleashed, the hospitality and tourism sectors, one of the hardest hit sectors, has been granted a 3.3 billion birr short term financing bailout to aid in working capital shortages […]

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a Tourism Recovery Technical Assistance Package to offer guidance to Member States in response to COVID-19. The package is structured around three main pillars: economic recovery, marketing and promotion and institutional strengthening and resilience building. With tourism among the […]

Five international air transport and tourism bodies have launched an appeal to international financial institutions, country development partners and international donors to support Africa’s Travel & Tourism sector which employs some 24.6 million people on the African continent. Without urgent […]