A German brand gives Zimbabwe’s premier attraction a global polish. by BERNARD CHIKETO THE Victoria Falls Bridge has witnessed plenty of crossings—colonial surveyors, railway magnates, bungee-jumping thrill-seekers. But a 21-strong convoy of Mercedes-Benz SUVs, snaking across the gorge with the spray rising behind them, is a rather different sort of spectacle. The occasion was the…
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.
Has Zimbabwe’s tourism regulator discovered a new way to improve business and accountability or a new revenue stream through on-the-spot penalties? by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR AN industry that trades on warm welcomes and jaw-dropping beautiful landscapes, Zimbabwe’s tourism sector has always had a slightly edgy relationship with rules.
by BERNARD CHIKETO AN INTERESTING thing happened on the way to Zimbabwe’s tourism recovery. When Dr. George Manyaya, the new chief executive of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA), called for a registration blitz of operators, he expected to tidy up the books.
by BERNARD CHIKETO Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) will convene its first annual general meeting on June 17th in Harare, a move that ends an awkward stretch of corporate silence for an organisation that has spent years selling the country’s attractions without ever presenting its own books to a public forum.
For a South African leader to claim the country his compatriots so often revile as home was a gesture no tourism campaign could manufacture by STAFF WRITER Patrice Motsepe, the president of the Confederation of African Football, arrived in Zimbabwe on Saturday morning to a red-carpet welcome, and then said something that landed with the…
by NORMA TSOPO TOURISTS, like vultures, are sensitive creatures. They circle promising spots but will veer away at the faintest sense of trouble.
A tour by a revered English cricket club is part of a strategy to pitch the country as a destination for high-value sports tourism. by Bernard CHIKETO IT HAS been six decades since the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the custodian of the sport’s laws and a side steeped in English tradition, last played in Zimbabwe….
