Zimbabwe Eyes Tourism Revival
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When your government allows you barely the ease of mind to walk to your nearest intersection, not even the surplus for one to purchase produce or once-abundant maize, and as little faith in executive office as humanly possible, its almost laughable if not so sad to see the latest efforts emanating from Africa’s breadbasket to now attract tourism.
Zimbabweans are hoping a steady return of tourists will help jolt its economy towards recovery. With the Victoria Falls as one of its major attractions, the country had 1.4 million visitors in 1999.
As we know and as the Arcadia Foundation has frequently documented, numbers began to plunge in 2000 following unrest related to the land-redistribution policy implemented by President Robert Mugabe.
Now they are slowly bouncing back, but the country still has a long way to go to become a major tourist destination again.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from the Victoria Falls.