Tourism

Eight people – including seven children – have died in a stampede ahead of a football match in Malawi, police say. Dozens more were injured in the crush at Lilongwe’s Bingu national stadium. The stampede happened as thousands of people rushed for seats ahead of a friendly between top sides Nyasa Big Bullets and Silver Strikers. Despite the deaths, the ...

The government has earmarked a 3,000 acre of land for the construction of an Airstrip in the Central Regional capital, Cape Coast. The Airstrip which will take light aircrafts when completed is expected to boost tourism in the Region. During an inspection of the land Tuesday, Aviation Minister Cecilia Dapaah told Joy News the intention of government is to “open the country ...

The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Catherine Afeku, has said that a report on the Kintampo disaster that claimed 19 lives “concluded that although this was an act of God, a number of remote and immediate causes were identified as being instrumental to the accident”. She said this on Tuesday, June 6 when she appeared before parliament to ...

An assignment worth sharing: The contribution domestic tourism can make on to national tourism policies. According to John Penrose in the Government Tourism Policy note, he acknowledged that Tourism is time and again underrated but forms an extremely important sector of the UK’s economy. It forms the six biggest industries and third-largest export earner. It accounts for almost £90bn direct ...