Expo Site Completion Now at 80 Percent by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR NEARLY two decades, Zimbabwe’s flagship tourism expo, Sanganai/Hlanganani World Travel Expo, rotated among the usual suspects: Harare, Bulawayo, Victoria Falls.
by NORMA TSOPO FOR three decades, NetOne has been a utility of sorts, a state-backed giant tasked with keeping Zimbabweans talking.
by BERNARD CHIKETO ZIMBABWE’S tourism ministry has inked a $66.9m commercial joint venture with a private consortium to install bulk water, power and telecoms at the Masuwe Special Economic Zone, a 271-hectare tract near the Victoria Falls rainforest.
by BERNARD CHIKETO BARBARA Rwodzi, Zimbabwe’s tourism minister, took her investment roadshow to Atlanta recently. Her audience was not a gathering of American hoteliers or sovereign wealth funds, but a cluster of Zimbabwean expatriates.
by BERNARD CHIKETO KATHY Kathewela, a representative of the Association of Zimbabwe Travel Agents, was elected president of the Tourism Business Council of Zimbabwe (TBCZ) at the industry body’s annual general meeting last Thursday, becoming the first agent to hold the post and its youngest leader to date.
How a cyclone, a waterfall, and a gown carried Zimbabwe’s resilience to Poland. by NORMA TSOPO THE CATARACT drops fifty metres over the Chimanimani escarpment. Tourists know it as the Bridal Veil.
by BERNARD CHIKETO THE LAST time an Air Zimbabwe jet touched down at Gatwick, Barack Obama was still in his first term, “Gangnam Style” was conquering the charts and the country’s economy was in freefall.
by NORMA TSOPO THE MINISTRY of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) will launch this year’s Manicaland provincial World Hearing Day commemorations on Thursday with a province-wide school screening programme aimed at identifying children with undiagnosed hearing loss, offering free hearing aids to those in need.
by BERNARD CHIKETO ZIMBABWE has turned its tourism sales pitch towards Australia, betting that one of the world’s most travelled populations can be persuaded to look beyond the familiar safari circuit and linger a little longer in southern Africa.
by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR YEARS, the money sent home by Zimbabweans abroad has been a quiet lifeline. It pays for mathematics textbooks, buys corrugated iron for kitchen roofs, and settles the monthly grocery bill.
