02/09/2013
World Travel Awards was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the tourism industry. Today, the WTA brand is recognised globally as the ultimate hallmark of quality, with winners setting the benchmark to which all others aspire. http://www.worldtravelawards.com/about
Serena Hotel is among three hotels in Rwanda to be nominated in the category, best Hotels in Rwanda. Two others hotels are Hotel des 1000 collines (http://www.millecollines.net/) and the Manor Hotel (http://www.themanorrwanda.com/index.html) . According to World Travel Awards, this is the first nomination for Serena, the second for both the 1000 collines and Manor Hotel.
Nyungwe is nominated in the category, the Africa's leading National Park, in 2013. Nyungwe Forest is a high-altitude, mountainous rainforest in southern Rwanda established as a forest reserve in 1933. The conservation area consists of approximately 378 squar...
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Serena Hotel and Nyungwe Forest among nominees for the World Travel Awards
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10 Astounding Wildlife Photos Up For Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Photo by Diana Webman
03/09/2013
10. “Twin hope” by Diana Webman
The hike to the mountain gorillas was particularly arduous that day. ‘Consistent rain made the ground very slippery,’ says Diana, ‘and the hillside was so steep it felt vertical.’ The gorilla group ahead finally settled to feed. ‘What made all the physical effort worth it was to see the mother with her two babies.’ This is only the fifth set of twins ever to be reported in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. The mother was a natural with her six-month-old infants, nursing them while feeding herself. When the silverback leader of the group chased her from a nettle patch, she vocalised at him, loudly, but moved on. ‘In this picture, she is still tense from the encounter’, says Diana, ‘and continues to glance across at him while she eats. Her twins, in the comfort of their mother’s strong arms, appear blissfully ignorant.’ T...
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France plans to invest in Aviation
03/09/2013
According to the Rwanda New Times, a delegation of French investors will visit Rwanda early this month, with the aim to see investment opportunities in various sectors, including the aviation sector.
"It's important that we continue encouraging policies that will attract more foreign investments into the country. This will benefit the business community and unemployed youth when the firms set up shop here," Umuraza said.
She said the companies are interested in agro-processing, architecture, fabrication, IT and aviation sectors.
Despite ups and downs in relations between France and Rwanda since the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, France already made some investments in Aviation sector. In 2002, France won a tender to upgrade facilities at Kigali Airport.
Sofreavia has provided complete detailed design and tender documents for: navigation/communications equipment, control tower and meteorological equipment, power supply and airfield light...
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Interview of Rica RWIGAMBA Head of Rwanda Tourism and Conservation
04/09/2013
De 2004 à 2013, le nombre de touristes visitant le Rwanda est passé de 27 000 à un million. Le tourisme contribue énormement à la croissance économique du Rwanda. Rica Rwigamba, explique les raisons de seuccès et les objectifs de ces prochaines années....
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Rwanda Tourism Sector records a strong growth during the first semester
06/09/2013
Ben Gasore
Rwanda earned $142.5m in tourism revenues in the first semester of this year compared to $128.4m in the same period last year. The country received 664,729 visitors, up from 583,096 during the same period last year.This represented an increase of 11 per cent in earnings and 14 per cent in tourist numbers, respectively, according to the Rwanda Development Board. “The increase in tourism revenues and visitor numbers are important in driving economic growth and generating opportunities that will improve the lives of Rwandans,” said Rica Rwigamba, the head of tourism and conservation at the Rwanda Development Board.Rwigamba said they were working to ensure tourists get value for their money and unparalleled tourism experiences. “In addition, we will continue to prioritise visitor safety and security in our parks and other tourist destinations,” she said.Travel to the Volcanoes National Park in the Northern Province and ...
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Akagera National Park gets electrical fencing
06/09/2013
Friends of Akagera National Park statement (Facebook)
On 5th September 2013, RDB held an event at the entrance to Akagera National Park to officially launch the boundary fence. Guest of honour was Sheikh Mussa Fazil Harerimana, Hon. Minister for Internal Security. The fence was ceremonially handed from the construction team, TnH EME, to RDB's CEO, Claire Akamanzi, and then to Akagera Management Company CEO and Park Manager, Jes Gruner. The fence will now be under the management of AMC who already have 42 fence attendants patrolling the entire fence line on a daily basis, checking the power and fixing any problems and reporting any breakages or security breaches to the Law Enforcement team. Congratulations RDB!
More pictures on their Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/AkageraNP
Right - Left: The Mayor of Kayonza District is with Rica Rwigamba, Claire Akamanzi, Hon. Minister Sheikh Mussa Fizal Harerimana and Executive Secretary...
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India will deploy its new Boeing C-17 in Rwanda, this month, for Indian troops based in DR Congo
10/09/2013
Important : this article is purely about aviation, not about the situation in East of DR Congo.
According Times Of India, from later this month, Indian Air Force will start to deploy its brand new Boeing C-17 to Rwanda. It will airlift Indian troops based in the Kivu Region (DR Congo). It will be the first mission in Africa, for the Indian Air Force Boeing C-17.
Defence ministry sources on Monday (09 September) said while one C-17 made a trip to energy-rich Tajikistan in August, another is slated to fly all the way to Rwanda later this month. "The Tajik flight carried special equipment, including instrument landing aids. The one to Rwanda will carry heavy equipment to support our troops deployed in the UN stabilization mission in war-ravaged Congo," said a source.
Currently Indian Air Force operates three Boeing C-17s, delivered in August 2013. 5 others will join the Air Force, in November 2013 and in 2014. They will replace...
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Aeroports de Lyon [France] could take part into the Bugesera Airport project
Lyon Airport, in December 2007
11/09/2013
Last week, we published an article about the visit of a French delegation in Rwanda, to explore investment opportunities in various sectors, including the aviation sector. According to Antenne.fr, first contact were made at Lyon.
Jacques Kabale, ambassadeur de la république du Rwanda en France, était récemment à Lyon pour rencontrer des patrons intéressés par ce pays, et prêt avec son gouvernement à "dérouler le tapis rouge pour les investisseurs".
Jacques Kabale, the Rwandan ambassador in France, was in Lyon to meet investors. Rwanda is ready to provide the red carpet, for French investors.
This event taken place on 26 June 2013 was organised by the CGPME Rhône-Alpes (General Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises). Aeroports de Lyon is member of the CGPME Rhône-Alpes. On this website, Rwanda News ...
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Rwanda will attend to at Akwaaba African Travel Market 2013 in Nigeria
15/09/2013
Justina Okpanku & Demola Ojo
Rwanda the East African poster boy of emerging markets will be showcasing its huge tourism products at Akwaaba African Travel Market.
Recently Rwanda was rated as the most improved Tourism destination in Africa. It is the first country to open its borders to other Africans a milestone in Tourism and intra African relationship.
With its resurgent Airline Rwandair positioning itself as one of the preffered Airlines in Africa, Rwanda is set to play among the big league in Africa. It is blessed with a wonderful environment. This year it hosted Nollywwod star Ramsy Nouah at its annual Gorrilla naming ceremony.
Rwanda is open to both leisure and business travellers. Rwanda stand at Akwaaba will house the tourist board and the Airline Rwandair which already flies into Nigeria.
SOURCES : NEWSWATCH : HERE - THISDAYLIVE : HERE
African Travel Market is the only international Travel Fair i...
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Kay Sun Hotel: African Cuisine in Exotic Setting
15/09/2013
Moses Opobo
Kay Sun Hotel just crept up across the wall from the Urban Boutique Hotel in Kiyovu. The modest single-storey structure in which it is housed has been under construction for the last two or so years, and what we thought would otherwise emerge as a posh residential house instead turned out to be a hotel
Kay Sun is the typical nice, clean and comfy hotel operating out of the city center. The bricks on the walls still ooze that factory freshness, as does the paint work.
From the main entrance, one walks through the tiled forecourt, which also doubles as parking, into the reception area, beyond which is the mini Resto-Bar, which is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
For those that prefer the outdoors, there is a petite garden that can accommodate a crowd of about 60, and that is popular with ceremonies like banquets and weddings.
Beyond the bar is a small conference facility that sits about 25, and further beyond is the kitchen.
Two stairc...
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"According to our projections, Kigali Airport will handle 600 000 passengers, in 2013 (280 000 in 2008) says Dr. Richard Masozera
17/09/2013
Dr. Richard Masozera is the director Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority. He told Business Times’ Peterson Tumwebaze the driving factors behind Rwanda’s aviation business success and how the industry is positioning itself to benefit from the East African Community integrationQuestion: Rwanda’s aviation industry is growing fast; what are the driving factors behind this growth?Answer: The aviation industry is not isolated from the rest of the economy; the industry is only benefiting from the overall growth of the economy.We are also looking at making the industry a business that will spur the growth of the general economy in years to come.However, the major driver for our growth came in 2008 when government moved towards revamping the industry by investing in the national airline (RwandAir) and also allocated huge sums of money to upgrade aviation infrastructure.The Government policy and sector laws have also made it easy fo...
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Akagera National Park, New infrastuctures, New products, New vision
Video directed in January 2013
19/09/2013
Akagera National Park is Rwanda's largest national park and one of the most diverse and scenically-attractive savannah reserves in Africa. Akagera has had a colourful history. Gazetted in 1934, it was among the first National Parks in Africa. At the time the park covered an area of over 2,700 km², amounting to nearly 10% of the total surface area of Rwanda. In 1997, 3 years after the genocide, the park was significantly reduced to its current size of 1,120 km², surrendering large areas on the western boundary to free up much-needed farming and grazing land for the returning refugees from Uganda and Tanzania.
From a wildlife management point of view the park lost much of its best grazing land; however, what remained as Akagera National Park retains the most stunning landscapes, with rolling views across the hills to the swamps and lakes that make up the largest protected wetland in Central Africa. For a ...
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Governement launches officially "The Kivu Belt Tourism Master Plan"
19/09/2013
The Ministry of Trade and Industry announced today, that it has launched "The Kivu Belt Tourism Master Plan". The aim of this project is to transform, the Western Region laying the Kivu Lake, into a major tourism place, in East Africa.
Some tweets published, by The Ministry of Trade and Industry :
Kivu Belt Tourism Sub-Master Plan will transform this region into one of the most competitive tourist destinations in the region.
The Kivu Belt Tourism Master Plan will engineer growth based on a sustainable market position.
The Tourism industry needs to return to a path of sustained growth and to do so, must develop a sustainable market position.
In line with market trends, a sustainable market position will be based on Rwanda’s heritage – natural, cultural, historic and built.
The current run down resorts will be made more attractive; gaps in the product offer covered through mobilizing investment.
F...
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Articles archives
08/28/2010
With the introduction of the last B737-500, RwandAir has increased flights to Johannesburg and Kilimandjaro .Johannesburg flights are now operated 5 times a week. The new flight is operated on Monday. Kilimandjaro flights are now operated 4 times a week. The new flight is operated on Sunday, with CRJ-200LRs instead of Dash 80-Q200 :
WB103
Sunday
Kigali
Kilimanjaro
19:30
21:45
WB102
Sunday
Kilimanjaro
Kigali
22:15
22:30
WB 113 Monday Kigali Johannesburg 10:00 14:00
WB 112 Monday Johannesburg Kigali 15:00 19:00
02/03/2011
From March 3rd 2011, RwandAir will launch flights to the Congo capital, which is Brazzaville. Flights will be operated three times a week, with the possibility to transf...
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Jobs Vacancies in the Rwanda Aviation October 2013
Here is a list of Job Vacancies in the Rwanda Aviation for October 2013. We will updated as soon possible.
Last update : 19 October 2013 10h25 a.m
Jobs Vacancies November 2013 : HERE
Some of vacancies still listing despite the deadline. Send an email to the company to know if the vacancy is still available.
You can try to send Resume here (Companies based in Rwanda or having a base in Rwanda) :
RwandAir : recruitment@rwandair.com
Akagera Aviation : office@akageraaviation.com
Nas Aviation (Pearl Assist) : http://nascareers.nas.com.kw/hr/login.aspx
SP Aviation : http://sp.co.rw/spip.php?rubrique8
Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority : Info@caa.gov.rw
For KLM, South African Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Kenya Airways, Qatar Airways, Air Uganda or Brussels Airline...
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World-class service exists in Rwanda, too.
02/10/2013
Sandra Idossou is a customer service consultant and the publisher of one most famous Rwandan news paper The ServiceMag. Click : HERE.
Special thanks to her, for the sharing of her article.
With the many initiatives aimed at improve the level of service delivery in the public and private sectors in place, a lot have been said and done. But most times, when we examine the level of the service we still receive, we wonder if we are doing things right. So, are the sensitisation campaigns, trainings and publications yielding any positive results?Well, let me share what I recently experienced in the ‘middle of a tea plantation’ and you be the judge. The plantation is almost seven hours drive from Kigali and on the edge of a forest. The Nyungwe Forest Lodge confirms that it is possible to have world class service in Rwanda.My job as a trainer has offered me opportunities to travel around the world and on all continents. I have been priv...
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Animal exhibition to boost cultural tourism
02/10/2013
By Jean de La Croix Tabaro
The Institute of National Museums of Rwanda (IMNR) is calling upon Rwandans to visit ‘living animals’ which will go on display later this month as part of the country’s drive to promote cultural tourism.According to IMNR director Alphonse Muliisa, the animals, an assorted species of reptiles, will be displayed at the Natural History Museum, commonly known as Kandt House, in Nyarugenge, Kigali.The exhibition, which will start with 16 reptiles on October 18, will be conducted in partnership with Dr. Harald Hinkel, a biologist from Germany.Some of the reptiles have already been brought to the museum, while others are being collected from Nyungwe and Akagera national parks. “I worked here in 1980s when we put up an exhibition of this kind and the visitors were in thousands on a daily basis and this gives us hope that this time around even more people will be coming,” Hinkel said. The e...
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Gorillas in the Mist : 25 Things You Didn't Know about the film
03/10/2013
Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American drama film directed by Michael Apted and starring Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey. It tells the true-life story of her work in Rwanda with Mountain Gorillas and was nominated for five Academy Awards.
By Gary Susman
But as familiar as Fossey's story is (thanks to the movie), there's still much that remains shrouded in mystery, from the identity of Fossey's killer to how Sigourney Weaver was able to ingratiate herself with Fossey's own gorillas during the filming. Here's the details behind the film, including the hardships involved in making it, which gorillas were fake, and what became of the poacher-threatened primates after the movie crew left.
1. Producer Arne Glimcher and Universal had acquired the movie rights to "Gorillas in the Mist," Fossey's 1983 best-selling memoir. Glimcher traveled to Rwanda in 1985 to meet her and discuss ideas for the movie. Hours before their schedul...
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Aman Resorts (Indonesia) eyes Rwandan Market
04/10/2013
Ivan R. Mugisha
A top Indonesian hotelier is exploring prospects of expanding his empire of luxurious hotels to Rwanda, a move that will boost the country’s already booming hospitality industry. Adrian Zecha is the co-founder of two multimillion international hotel chains–Aman Resorts and Regent International Hotels. Zecha yesterday met with President Paul Kagame at Village Urugwiro in Kigali where the two held private discussions concerning the former’s intent to invest in the country. “We haven’t done anything in sub-Saharan Africa yet, so I think it is about time we invested, and the one place we think is conducive is Rwanda,” Zecha told journalists after meeting the President. “I am delighted to be here because I will be able to see for myself the potential Rwanda has. The next step which is important, is to find the right spot for construction of the hotel.” Zecha did not reveal...
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WMP Rwanda and Akagera Aviation made Air Transport Agreement
08/10/2013
On this Wednesday 02/10/2013 Wolfram Mining and Processing Ltd made an official air transport agreement with Akagera Aviation to transport its visitors such as; investors, government officials and minerals in case of mining site inaccessibility due to broken roads which may be caused by heavy rain.
Note that the stated agreement concerns the Gifurwe mining site located in Burera district, Northern province. On the same day, WMP Rwanda launched a small airport land at Gifurwe site where the Akagera Aviation helicopters or any other helicopters can land.
The above companies agreement also covers transport of WMP employees in case of emergence evacuation from site to Hospitals in Kigali, due to mining site accidents. Note that all WMP Rwanda mines are close to local or district hospitals and have the evacuation ambulance to every site.
WMP Rwanda : http://www.wmprwanda.com/news/108-wmp-rwanda-and-akagera-aviation-made-air-transport-agreement.html...
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