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A guide working a safari circuit that crosses from Botswana into Namibia's Zambezi Region already lives the "boundless" idea SADC ministers put a name to in June: the wildlife does not stop at the border, staff rotate across camps on both sides, and the...
For two days in August 2021, Lilongwe was the centre of Southern African political life — sixteen heads of state and government converging on Malawi's capital for the 41st SADC Summit, hosted under a country still working to establish itself as a mainstream...
Conceived in 1997 by Reed Hastings, Netflix is a name that comes to mind when talking about online video streaming and internet-connected screens. Following this model, Botswana launched its own channel called UPICtv in 2020. But what is Netflix? Netflix Inc. is the...
As getaways continue to evolve in their meaning and importance for the balance of our well-being, and with the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to reshape how we travel and tour, investment in tourism and hospitality is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the tourism...
There are many opportunities for Destinations Management businesses in the tourism industry in Botswana, creating unique travel and tour packages that can be consumed by local, regional, and international visitors. Botswana is a tourist destination that is amongst the...
A security mandate is an unusual place to look for tourism policy, but for northern Mozambique in June 2021 it is the only place the signal exists. SADC heads of state, meeting in extraordinary summit in Maputo on 23 June, approved a mandate for a SADC Standby Force...
As West Africans travel across Africa, especially South Africa, they need good foreign exchange services and rates that are affordable for both business and personal travel. In South Africa, Forex World is such a business that can deliver such services and rates....
A regional tourism economy built on shared wildlife, shared rivers and shared heritage sites has just received a fifty-eight-page reminder, in the form of SADC's Vision 2050, that its own governments still plan tourism, conservation and mobility as three separate...
Tourism does not appear among the three value chains SADC has named as priorities under its restated manufactured-export ambition — agro-processing, mineral beneficiation and pharmaceuticals — and that absence is itself informative. The bloc wants manufactured exports...