Business tourists dominate visits to Botswana

Business tourists dominated arrivals in Botswana during the first quarter of 2016 with 93,107 travellers entering the country, Statistics Botswana (SB) has said.

The figure represented 32.2% of overall arrivals of 484,717 for the quarter.

According to the statistical agency, travellers who came for purposes of visiting friends and relatives were 80,362, accounting for 27.8%.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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