WIT wraps up women's month

Women In Tourism Botswana (WIT) in collaboration with Hilton Garden Inn Gaborone, recently hosted the inaugural annual Women In Tourism high tea symposium  in commemoration of Women's month.

Sponsored by Botswana Tourism Organisation and supported by Echo Newspaper, The Voice Newspaper, King on Media, Sunset Bird Travel and Messidior Investments , the symposium aimed to celebrate women’s advancement in the tourism and hospitality sector particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In her keynote address at the event, Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism Philda Kereng congratulated the event’s stakeholders for organizing an occasion that allows women in the industry to converse and find ways to become bigger players and get into positions of power. She recognised the efforts of Women In Tourism Botswana and Hilton Garden Inn Gaborone towards giving recognition to what she said is now a very delicate industry.

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