Southern Africa
Where the tourism economy is most exposed to currency volatility, fuel price politics and regional aviation fragmentation. Southern Africa carries the continent's largest tourism receipts and its most acute structural vulnerabilities, often within the same calendar quarter. The publication tracks the gap between SADC commitments and SADC delivery.
Botswana is rebuilding the tourism state. The diamond economy is no longer enough.
In thirty days the Boko administration has overhauled the 2009 Tourism Act, signed a passport-free travel accord with Zimbabwe, launched a Tourism Dashboard and committed to a Tourism Satellite Account by July. Together they are the most ambitious tourism state-building exercise any Southern African government has attempted in a decade.
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