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Easy sailing: Tourists from Camp Okavango enjoy a recent cruise of the Delta on a mokoro PIC: MBONGENI MGUNI

Tourism operators are reporting an increase in arrivals as the industry’s first peak season after the pandemic reaches its tail-end. However, concerns are growing that the growing recovery could be snuffed out by tighter economic conditions in the markets where Botswana receives most of its tourists from. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI reports

The local tourism sector is at the tail-end of its traditional peak season, a high-traffic window running roughly between April and October.

This period is preferred by tourists as the dry winter conditions provide for better viewing of various species through the usually lush wilderness and easier sightings as they gather around the fewer water sources.

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