Premier e-Tourism Strategy Conference (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) The Canadian Tourism Commission is proud to announce Canada-e-Connect, the first ever Canadian e-Tourism Strategy Conference. Canada-e-Connect will bring together more than 300 travel and tourism industry leaders....more...Growing Wine Tourism By The Glass - The Art of Wine Lists (South African Wine News) While wining and dining his way through the Cape this winter, Graham Howe contemplates the innovative ways of creating wine-lists ? as a way of increasing on-trade consumption and wine tourism while recruiting a new generation of wine consumers by promoting a wine by-the-glass culture....more... Kenya: Lake Otter Likely to Boost Western Circuit Tourism (AllAfrica.com) Kenya's western tourism circuit is set for a major boost with the regular sighting in Lake Victoria of the otter, a carnivorous, aquatic mammal mostly associated with the South American and Asian sea waters....more... Elgin tourism heads give writers a lift (The Courier News) ELGIN -- The Elgin Area Convention and Visitors Bureau this week delivered its best one-two punch in hopes of attracting tourists to the area. ...more... Even Mugabe cannot sink profit at Zimbabwean 'smoking thunder' (The Namibian) Reliable data are hard come by, with the Zimbabwean Tourism Authority boasting a record number of travellers to the country last year - 2,2 million, up from 1,5 million in 2005 - while Standard Bank records a 31 per cent drop in tourism receipts for the first quarter of the same year....more... Angola: Angola, Zimbabwe Share Experience in Tourism Sectors (AllAfrica.com) An Angolan delegation of the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism is since last weekend in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, for the exchange of experiences in the licensing of hotel infrastructures....more... Sydney Harbour here we come (Cyclingnews.com) The immediate future of the oldest bike race in NSW, Australia, the Goulburn to Sydney Cycle Classic, is assured for another two years with Wednesday's announcement that banking giant, the Citi Group, will be the naming rights sponsor for the 2007 event....more... Even Mugabe cannot sink profit at 'smoking thunder' (ZWNEWS.com) Victoria Falls - Despite the economic mayhem unfolding in most quarters of Zimbabwe, Victoria Falls is every bit the magnet it has always been, with visitors appearing not to think twice about their choice of destination....more... Off-roaders ripping up B.C. parks, farms (Revelstoke Times Review) VICTORIA ? East Kootenay MLA Bill Bennett admits that calls for more regulation seldom come from the B.C. Liberal side of the legislature, but he?s continuing his six-year campaign to have all-terrain quads, snowmobiles and dirt bikes licensed in B.C....more... |