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THE hotel industry in Uganda is ready for CHOGM. Tourism minister Serapio Rukundo says rooms have reached 4,700, “The requirement from the Commonwealth Secretariat was 4,000 rooms, but we now have an excess of 700. We want to have over 6,000 rooms by CHOGM time,” Rukundo said recently.

He said the ministry would use the changes brought about by CHOGM to promote the tourism sector. Read more

Information from public relations agency PR Sky

Angola is to get 39 new hotels of various categories in the coming 30 months involving estimated investments of US$ 500 million, an official has said.

Rosa da Cruz of the Luanda tourism ministry’s planning department said Thursday that the new investment was due to a number of upcoming sporting events being staged in Angola, such as the African Nations Cup in 2010, Afrobasket and the African Women’s Handball Championships.

Angola’s hotel sector is set to grow by about 8 percent annually over the next few years, said da Cruz, with a parallel expansion in restaurants and overall improvement in quality of services.

“Angolan tourism has being developing positively. Results achieved and the country’s balance of payment figures are proof of this reality,” added the official.

The government of Tanzania is set to penalize three beach resort hotels for felling mangrove trees to enlarge their premises.

Local English tabloid The Citizen on Wednesday quoted a national resources and tourism ministry official as saying that the three beach hotels in Dar es Salaam would face legal actions for their wrongdoing.

Julius Faya, zonal mangrove manager under the ministry, told local media after inspecting the damaged mangrove trees on the premises of the three beach hotels that the government would not remain quiet when its natural resources were being destroyed by certain people for their own interests.  Read more

One of Kenya’s finest game parks is under threat from uncontrolled development of hotels and lodges, conservationists claim. The building of four new hotels, which would more than double the number of beds in Samburu National Reserve, has been criticised environmental groups which warn that elephant migratory corridors and lion breeding habitats could be destroyed.

The BBC wildlife presenter Saba Douglas-Hamilton, whose father Ian runs Save the Elephants, which operates in the park, warned that the developments would do “untold damage” to Samburu if they were allowed to go ahead.  Read more

Ancient elephant trails and lion breeding habitats are under threat from a series of hotels being built in a remote Kenyan game park, claim conservationists.

Tourist numbers could double with the four new lodges in Samburu National Reserve and the adjoining Buffalo Springs reserve, a pristine stretch of dusty scrub dotted with bush-covered hills, 200 miles north of Nairobi.

A surge in visitors, many likely to be from Britain, could damage for ever the fragile ecosystem, home to 900 elephants, a dozen prides of lions, leopards and the endangered Grevy’s zebra.� Read more