Policy & Governance
Visa regimes, ministerial decisions and the institutional architecture that determines whether tourism revenue is captured, retained and reinvested. The Sovereign Tourism Architecture framework treats tourism not as an industry the state regulates, but as a sector the state must architect to capture value within its own economy.
Virunga is the world's most defended national park. That defence is the tourism economy.
A Belgian foundation has received more than $180 million from the European Union to manage Africa's oldest national park on behalf of the Congolese state. In May 2025 it was granted management of the 550,000 square kilometre Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor — an area nearly the size of Kenya. More than 200 rangers have died defending the park since its founding. The model is being scaled before it has been tested.
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