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Sun International made the decision to temporarily close its hotels and resorts, including Sun City Resort and Wild Coast Sun.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
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Small businesses owned by women and people of color who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 will soon have support from the FedEx E-Commerce Learning Lab. The recently launched FedEx program was developed in collaboration with Accion Opportunity Fund (AOF), a nonprofit organization providing small business owners with access to capital, networks and coaching. According to […]
Health Alert: U.S. Embassy Dar es Salaam
\tThe Tanzanian government has not released aggregate numbers on COVID-19 cases or deaths since April 29.
Total confirmed cases = 509
Total recoveries = 183
Total deaths = 21
Active cases = 305
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 29, 2020
May 26: Govt summons US envoy over virus advisories
\tThe Tanzanian government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this week summoned the acting US ambassador over recent advisories relating to COVID-19.
The embassy in a May 13 advisory said the risk of virus contamination remained extremely high in Dar es Salaam and in other parts of the country.
His pronouncement is the latest in the Tanzania government’s posture towards a virus that has led to the imposition of lockdowns and enforcement of physical distancing in most African countries.
Telfair Museums in downtown Savannah will be reopening its three sites—the Telfair Academy, the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, and the Jepson Center for the Arts— beginning Friday, June 26.
“Our museums have a more than $9 million annual economic impact here in Savannah, we’re the city’s largest employer and provider of programming in the cultural arts sector, and we’re excited to get back to sharing the rich and important experience of art and history with Savannah residents and tourists.”
The museums have implemented a number of new health initiatives for visitors and staff, including social distancing, regular deep cleanings, hand sanitizer, plexiglass, face masks, and reduced-contact admissions procedures.
To celebrate the museums’ reopening and give back to the public, Telfair is offering a new Free Family Weekend from Friday, July 17-Sunday, July 19, with free admission to all Savannah and Chatham County residents in partnership with the City of Savannah.
Telfair Museums reopening highlights • Reopening date: Friday, June 26 • New hours: 10am-5pm Thursday-Sunday; closed Tuesday-Wednesday • Admission: $20 to visit all three sites; see telfair.org/ hours-admission for special pricing and safety information.
With rules regarding leisure travel unclear, and relief funding to tour guides not forthcoming, the DA have a bone to pick with Kubayi-Ngubane
Regional commissioner Mrisho Gambo in a statement of May 20 said nineteen drivers who were declared positive by Kenya tested negative in Tanzania.
“In efforts to confirm reliability of COVID-19 test results, we took samples from 19 drivers from Tanzania who had tested and declared positive by Kenya authorities at Namanga border on Kenyan side.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says it is crucial to protect health services during the pandemic, which is why the alcohol sales ban will continue to limit trauma cases at hospitals.
Chris Forrest and Pete Goffe-Wood are set to deliver their fist online show with 'Don't Burn Your Sausage'.
Some hotels and restaurants in Nairobi have upped their safety measures to keep staff and guests safe.
Ibis Styles hotel in Westlands, Nairobi, reopened to the public on Wednesday after weeks of putting in new safety measures.
To keep citizens as safe as possible from Covid-19, hotels and restaurants in Kenya were closed in mid-March.
So far the hotel has not had to lay off any staff, and hope that more people can return to work with the reopening.
You scan the menu off a QR code using your phone and the wait staff then comes over and takes your order and processes it,” said Maryanne Njeri, the hotel’s marketing and e-commerce manager.
Will the decision by several U.S. cruise lines to home port in the Caribbean this summer become a permanent fixture, or is it just a temporary workaround? The widespread suspicion that it is the latter, was succinctly voiced in one recent online posting on Tribune242’s website in The Bahamas: “These
Jamaica's tourism ministry, working in tandem with industry stakeholders, has crafted a deep and comprehensive plan covering 119 pages to keep visitors and Jamaicans alike safe from COVID-19.
Following is the first instalment in a series of excerpts from the document titled 'Resilience: COVID-19 Ministry of Tourism Health and Safety Protocols for theTourism Industry 2020':
Safe and resilient tourism has consistently been a foundational element of Jamaica's tourism industry.
Only businesses within the corridor which have been trained, assessed, and cleared for opening by the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) are allowed to open to tourists during Phase 1.
The goal of the Ministry of Tourism's COVID-19 Health and Safety Protocols is to strengthen Jamaica's resilience to COVID-19 and safeguard all stakeholders within the tourism ecosystem, including workers, communities and tourists.
The specific objectives include the following:
• support health and economic risk management across the tourism industry;
• provide a framework to drive quality assurance of implemented protocols and regular monitoring;
• maximise effective recovery by facilitating and improving the flow of information and coordination; and
Pursuant to this document, each operator in the tourism sector is required to adhere to the Ministry of Health and Wellness guidelines put forth to assist employers in managing their workforce.
Since the onset of COVID-19 and the lockdown of The Netherlands until at least June 1, however, the country’s flower bulb farming sector has been severely affected.
One of the world’s largest flower gardens, Keukenhof in Lisse, is closed this year.
But with no tourists this year, the industry—and the country as a whole—have suffered severely.
Tourists typically spend some 80 billion euros, approximately $86.8 billion, per year, about 9% of The Netherlands’ gross national product.
Until this year, tourists typically arrive for the popular flower season from mid-April to the end of May, with the majority coming from China, Japan, India, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and Russia, as well as from all of southern Europe.
Raft captains on the Rio Grande, a key tourist attraction in Portland, are appealing for assistance in the wake of a weeks-long lay-up since the closure of water bodies to the public and the shutdown of the tourism industry as global travel ground to a halt.
Lawrence Chisholm, president of the Raft Captains Association, said that vessels that have laid idle on river banks since March have been damaged by the prolonged heat.
The 87 registered raft captains are concerned that they won’t be ready in time for the return of tourists.
Chisholm said that raft captains who applied for a bailout as tourism workers had not received those grants despite receiving promises.
“We are an important part of the tourism sector, and yet still, raft captains have not received a penny, even though we were told that we would benefit during the period of the coronavirus as we had lost our income,” said the association president.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has unveiled a massive stimulus programme to jump-start the country's economy by pumping Sh53.7 billion into various sectors.
He said the move is aimed at mitigating the effects of COVID-19 which has slowed the economy since March, rendering thousands jobless after many business were closed down.
In an address to the nation from State House on Saturday, the president said he is keen to see the revival of the tourism industry and has set aside Sh2 billion to support renovation of facilities and the restructuring of business operations in the tourism industry.
Hotels in tourism destinations across the country remain closed since March when the country confirmed its first case of coronavirus.
\"And to mitigate the impact of deforestation and climate change, and to enhance the provision of water facilities, my administration will rehabilitate wells, water pans and underground tanks in the Arid and Semi-Arid areas,\" he said, setting aside Sh 850 million.
President Cyril Ramaphosa read the riot act to those violating rules aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus and announced new measures to enforce them as the disease nears a peak.
As the tourism industry continues to reopen worldwide, Barbados’ cruise sector this morning welcomed Celebrity Millennium to its shores. The cruise ship, which is part of the Celebrity Cruise Line that is owned by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL), is the first in the Western hemisphere to sail in 15 months and the first to […]
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The restaurant industry, amongst others, may see business 'shrink' if the government is able to force through its amendments to our alcohol laws.
Several [American] cruise lines have said they will sail out of the Caribbean this summer. David Jessop believes that the need for a strong post pandemic economic recovery requires the region to find ways to ensure cruise ships home port in the Caribbean for a part of every year.
Tourism: United Nations body says SA will be among the 15 hardest-hit countries in the world. Best case is a 3% reduction in GDP, report claims.
Minister Ebrahim Patel came under more pressure to lift the alcohol ban within restaurants this week, following intervention from the FF Plus.
Craft vendors across the island who have been for years struggling to get a share of the multibillion-dollar tourism pie say that the current coronavirus pandemic has now robbed them of the occasional crumb they would get from the table.
McLennon and 449 other merchants in the popular craft market have been out of business since Jamaica’s strict measures implemented to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus outbreak in the island crippled the tourism industry.
“We sit here weeks after weeks and watch tourists come off the ships, and when you look in the craft market, everybody sleeping because we are the last stop on their itinerary, while others are raking in so much money from the industry,” McLennon lamented, adding that she was longing for the day when Jamaicans would get their rightful inheritance from an industry they built.
We have a man who does vegetables, supplying the craft traders at a cheaper cost, taking some of the burden off us,” Haughton told The Sunday Gleaner.
“We must make these adjustments so that the industry will be viable to us as craft traders, because when tourism is booming year to year, others will be doing real good everywhere else, but the craft traders are yet to give their testimony of having a good day.”
Alcohol can't be sold during curfew, which now starts at midnight.
(@BISouthAfrica) April 22, 2020 QUESTION: Will cloth masks become compulsory in South Africa post-lockdown?
South Africans may be compelled to use cloth masks when using any form of transport when the national lockdown is set to lift at the end of April, according to a draft document by the Presidency.
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QUESTION: What are the 7 biggest interventions in President Cyril Ramaphosa's R500bn coronavirus support package?
The law on domestic worker payments during lockdown | @Parent24 https://t.co/Onzb6ljgwY pic.twitter.com/67lCzdCMCF — News24 (@News24) April 18, 2020 QUESTION: What are my options when it comes to paying my domestic worker or gardener during the lockdown?
LIST | The dos and don'ts during the national lockdown
Police Minister Bheki Cele has warned any person who contravenes the regulations of the nationwide lockdown from midnight on Thursday will be guilty of a criminal offence and will be liable to a fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or both.
South Africa has been nominated over the entire spectrum of the travel and tourism industry at the 2021 World Travel Awards.
