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(TALKZIMBABWE) Pres Mugabe to attend regional 'Presidential Day'

Pres Mugabe to attend regional 'Presidential Day'
Nancy Pasipanodya
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:29:00 +0000

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will meet next month with other African leaders in Namibia for a grand tourism expedition meant to market tourism destinations and reap from World Cup 2010 in South Africa next year.

The president and his counterparts, Rupiah Banda of Zambia, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola, Seretse Khama Ian Khama of Botswana, Jacob Zuma of South African and Swazi King Mswati III will join host President Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia in Oranjemund on August 19.

The event dubbed “Presidential Day” will also be attended by representatives from Lesotho and Mozambique.

“This event is an initiative of boundless southern Africa. Part of the legacy issue is to promote tourism ahead of World Cup 2010," says a report from Namibia Tourism Board (NTB), Chief Executive Officer, Digu //Naobeb.

“It’s also a platform to garner investors to invest in tourism infrastructure and generate interest around tourism. Rural communities too benefit from these infrastructure and ecosystems,” said //Naobeb.

In her address on nature conservancies to boost tourism, Namibian Minister of Environment and Tourism Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah announced this grand event saying that treaties would be signed that would include the Tansfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) and Kavango Zambezi (KAZA), all geared towards World Cup 2010 in South Africa and beyond.

She said the current tourism infrastructure, comprising hotels, lodges, safari camps, roads, border posts, airports, airstrips and the untapped potential to develop more tourism facilities, offer a window of opportunity for transforming the region into a world class and premier tourist destination in Africa.

Labels: MUGABE, PRESIDENTIAL DAY, SADC, TRANSFRONTIER CONSERVATION AREAS

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