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The Catering and Tourism Training Institute (CTTI) under the Ethiopian Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MoCT) is organizing a tourism and hospitality week for the first time. Officials of the institute indicated that the event will be held for three days from May 21.

Dawit Haile, director of CTTI, said that the event will help to promote the quality of the service that the institute offer. According to the organizers, CTTI students and other stakeholders, including tour and travel companies and hotels, will have a role in the event. Add a comment Add a comment

Total Ethiopia in collaboration with the Labor and Social Affairs Bureau of the Addis Ababa city Administration, celebrated the ‘World Day for Safety and Health at Work’ on April 26 at Dreamliner Hotel.

The event's theme was “Total commitment to Safety for ME, for YOU, for ALL”, incorporated workshops attended by the management, employees, fuel transporters, contractors, customers and service station dealers to create awareness on accidents in Ethiopia. Add a comment Add a comment

The Ethiopia Commodities Exchange (ECX) is reduced the expiration date of warehouse receipts issued for coffee from  30 days to  20 days as of May 9, 2013.

The ECX governing body, Ethiopian Commodity Exchange Authority (ECEA) has approved the change with others relating to moisture adjustment, the amount that should be contained in a bag, and the cost of handling goods.

ECX introduced these changes following a series of studies it undertake during the current year based on transaction data from the past 18 days, according to Anteneh Assefa, CEO of the Exchange. The study revealed that 50pc of members storing coffee at ECX warehouses make a sale within eight days and 90 percent of members within 20 days.

The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange has postponed the bid opening date for 30 membership seat tender floated exclusively for farmer's cooperatives, to May 16, 2013. The original bid opening date was set for April 31.

The reason given by Exchange is to encourage more participation by farmer's cooperatives. ECX is expecting 200 farmer's cooperatives to participate, according to Abenet Assefa, Chief Strategy Officer at the Exchange.