Government counters SI campaign

This emerged at yesterday's press conference by the Botswana Tourism Organisation, Chief Executive Officer Myra Sekgororoane who stated that the SI campaign has done damage to the industry.  While only three tour operators have joined SI campaign, Sekgororoane said it was still worrisome, as "any bad publicity is not good no matter how small it is."

Sekgororoane explained that the government of Botswana wrote a letter to tour operators explaining its stand. "Because we did not want to spend time counter arguing with SI we decided to explain to our tour operators what is really going on," she said.