IATA’s Director General and CEO, Alexandre de Juniac urged the International Air Transport Association (IATA) aviation stakeholders to continue to be guided by the spirit of the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation, known as the Chicago Convention, in responding to the challenges facing aviation today and in the future. Transcript of his speech: Good…
Outlined are the key changes in the Foreign Exchange (Bureau De Change) Regulations, which came into force on 7 June 2019 and revoked the 2015 Foreign Exchange (Bureau De Change) Regulations. All bureaux de change licensed by the Bank of Tanzania (BOT) to operate in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar will be required to comply with…
Earlier this year, the Bank of Tanzania (the BOT) issued a statement regarding its plans to unveil a new instant payment system formally known as the Tanzania Instant Payment System (TIPS). TIPS will be a shared platform for payments, as it will allow transactions made by card, over mobile banking, electronic money schemes and internet banking…
Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe has died. He was ninety-five and had been ill for some time and died in a hospital in Singapore. He was one of the most controversial head of state, President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017. In 2013, he hosted the UNWTO General Assembly together with Zambia and opened the…
In summary the Circular requires that all banks and financial institutions in Tanzania do the following: put in place a primary or secondary data centre within seven working days from the date of issuance of the circular re-confirm the location of the data centres, compliance status and prepare for the centres to be tested within…
ADM Aéroports de Montréal has released its consolidated operating results for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2019. Since the beginning of the year, YUL Montréal-Trudeau International Airport has welcomed 9.7 million passengers, an increase of 5.7% over the same period last year. Highlights – passengers ◾YUL is continuing to welcome more and more passengers:…
His Excellency President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda commissioned the first ever elephant deterrent electric fence in Uganda’s conservation history in Queen Elizabeth National Park on August 1, 2019. The fence was constructed as an intervention to stave off human-wildlife conflict including marauding elephants that are most notorious at razing crops of communities neighboring the parks. It stretches 10…
Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett, says the United Nations (UN) is fully on board to improve coordinated action and share expertise and resources with the Global Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCM, as it relates to the threat of sargassum to the region. “This agreement follows fruitful discussions with the UN and the GTRCM recently.…
The Tourism/Visitor industry is a one of the world’s great industries. Large industries, however, mean that there are large cash flows and large amounts of cash often mean multiple lawsuits and other legal problems. Often local CVBs or tourism offices are unaware of their own nation’s laws and obligations. This ignorance of the law can…
Saudi Arabia has announced that women over 21 can now hold their own passports and travel freely. At present, adult Saudi women are essentially considered legal minors who are subject to the arbitrary authority of their male relatives such as their husband, father or siblings. This new landmark reform significantly weakens the so-called ‘male guardianship’ rules…