Ecotourism guideline to be implemented this year
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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Rapelang Mojaphoko told the Botswana Guides Association (BOGA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Maun Lodge recently that the implementation will result in the opening up of the reserves for tourism activities.
She explained that opening up the forests reserves will help tour operators in diversifying their tourism product.She said the contribution of the tourism sector to the Gross National Product continues to be below its potential due to lack of diversification in the sector.
The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...