The Tanzania Tourist Board announced the Slogan For Destination Tanzania Competition

The competition seeks to find the next short and exciting phrase that will define Tanzania as a unique destination. 

The competition deadline is on 05th of June and the winner can expect to be gifted a safari to Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro and the Serengeti, courtesy of the Tanzania Tourist Board and their partners. Notably, and as a strong sign how the new media and in particular social networks have made inroads into destination marketing, will the contributions have to be entered on the TTB facebook pages via www.facebook.com/TanzaniaTouristBoard where one can also vote for eye catching phrases, though the final decision will rest with a panel of judges put in place by TTB. Alternatively go to the TTB website and get the details of the competition, terms and conditions or participation and other related information via www.tanzaniatouristboard.com/ttbslogan/

Air Tanzania gets a B737-500 to restart operations

Sources in Dar es salaam confirmed that Air Tanzania Company Limited is expecting to get the 108-seat Boeing 737-500 leased by from Aero Vista Dubai.

 With the crashed Bombardier a Dash8-300 turboprop, was seriously damaged in a mishap at Kigoma Airport.

The new jet will however only be able to fly to such destinations like Kilimanjaro, Dodoma, Mwanza or Zanzibar, as most other airports and aerodromes are only able to cater for the landing of smaller turboprop aircraft, a fact now used by competitor Precision Air which is serving domestic destinations with their ATR fleet.

Apart from the delay mention on the citizen newspaper, ATCL acting managing director Paul Chizi confirmed that the aircraft did not arrive as promised and declined to offer any details, saying he would be in a better position to explain what happened today. He also refused to disclose when the aircraft would arrive.

 The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority, whose experts went to Cairo to inspect the plane, said the aircraft had been cleared and a landing permit was issued yesterday evening.
“We have inspected the aircraft and granted ATCL a landing permit this evening (yesterday), but we cannot tell precisely when it will arrive in the country. You may wish to crosscheck with the airline management,” said Mr Manongi.

ATCL said on Wednesday that experts from Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority had completed inspection of the plane in Cairo and the aircraft was expected to be flown to the country yesterday, but it did not arrive.

Aviation experts said that Q400 is efficient especially in Tanzania where most airports are unpaved.“For me this plane fits most of our airports because it has a large clearance which enables it to land on unpaved airstrips,” said Tanzania Air Services Limited director Abdukadir Mohamed.

Tanzania’s new tourism minister sets out his agenda

NEW TOURISM MINISTER VOWS TO MAKE CHANGES
Appointed only last week, when his predecessor Ezekiel Maige was unceremoniously sacked alongside 5 other cabinet ministers, did the new man at the helm of the ministry for natural resources and tourism Khamis Kagesheki make his first major announcement yesterday in Dar es Salaam. Poaching, illegal timber cutting and trade and unsustainable use of natural resources will be high on his agenda it appears from reports received. There are many complaints on poaching, allocation of hunting blocks and illegal trading of timber. We are going to focus on those problems the new minister was quoted in having said, a first indicator that he understands what led to the downfall of Maige and how to avoid falling into the same traps by tackling the right issues.
There is speculation in Dar es Salaams tourism and conservation circles that senior staff at ministry level and subordinate bodies under the ministry may also face the axe to allow the minister a fresh start all round with new faces not associated with past scandals over illegal logging and allegedly illegal exports of wildlife. Said a regular source from Arusha when discussing the issue: Maige talked too much and talked too much rubbish. Of course no one tells a sitting minister in his face but those were wide sentiments. He lost grip on illegal logging, illegal wildlife trade which uses Tanzania as a conduit and for sure he failed to make use of the Presidents support to crack down hard on poaching. The President even offered troops but Maige and TANAPA, what were they doing. In fact, TANAPA went on rampage last year by blackmailing tour operators when they had an issue with lodges and tented camps. They held our drivers and tourists hostage. It is such issues the new minister needs to look into. Expanding Tanga Marine National Park inland is another issue he should look at. The whole question of that damned road through the Serengeti, the railway routings, mining in the Selous, the planned power plant at Stieglers Gorge, the Lake Natron soda ash plant, there are so many issues which you keep writing about. TTB needs to shape up in promotion to match our neighbours and popularize Tanzania and our islands. I have talked with colleagues and we are ready to give the new man some time to settle down but there are hard decisions waiting for him..
Similar statements are also expected from the new transport minister in particular about the future of the countrys dilapidated railway system, of which several routes could become instant tourist attractions besides once again providing Tanzanians with safe and affordable means of transport. One of the most controversial issues, the future of Air Tanzania, which has left the government in the lurch over guarantees given to them in the past for transactions, now estimated to cost the country up to 200 million US Dollars to settle is also on the new transport ministers agenda and he will be well advised to make peace with parliament which had unearthed the scandals by taking harsh and literally instant action against those implicated in the alleged fraud. Watch this space.

Source:  http://wolfganghthome.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/tanzanias-new-tourism-minister-sets-out-his-agenda/