Gaborone As a Tourist Destination

Let’s come at it again – the regularly repeated conviction that not only can Gaborone be developed as a tourist centre but that it already boasts an array of features that are bound to interest and even excite both the foreign and local visitor.

The most recent advocate of this line of thought is Dr Thapelo Otlogetswe who, having toured the country during the holiday period, returned to base in Gaborone convinced, as many of us have been for so long, that, in terms of tourism, there could be so much more to this country than wildlife.  Indeed so convinced was he that he listed features in and around Gaborone which, supposedly, have appeal. (Telegraph 13.1.16).

His is a familiar list – can it be otherwise? – which shows that Gaborone, curiously, is not only wildlife dependent but that it has been unwilling to be anything else.

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