Tourism growth hampered by red tape

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Matsheka

KASANE: The country’s tourism industry is constrained by a difficult operating environment despite massive potential to become a top revenue earner, delegates at the recent Hospitality and Tourism Association of Botswana (HATAB) annual conference heard.

The industry is said to be performing below potential with poor services in hospitality, air transportation and general poor service delivery among the tourism stakeholders.

Several delegates at the conference lamented government’s deep inability to provide an enabling environment for the tourism industry to operate efficiently. It also emerged that government has failed to resolve a catalogue of issues that hinder progress of the tourism industry, some of them dating back from afar as 2011.

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