�Epidemic of ignorance� hits tourism industry

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Jobs and revenues are under threat in the tourism industry as Botswana begins to feel the brunt of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa with tourists from USA and Europe unwittingly placing a blanket shun on the whole of Africa.

According to tour operators in the Okavango Delta, arrivals have taken a knock in the second half of the year, while bookings for next year are estimated to have sunk by a sector average of between 30-50 percent.

With the tourism industry being a major economy activity and employer in Botswana, tourism operators blame lack of understanding of African geography by their clients as the affected West African countries are closer to Paris and London than they are to safari hot spots such as Botswana and Zambia.

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