First Republican President, Kenneth Kaunda, has welcomed government’s move to host this year’s regional Southern Africa Tourism Exposition, which will be held in Livingstone from September 25 to 27, 2008.
Dr. Kaunda said the move would provide an opportunity for Zambia to showcase the country’s enormous tourism potential.
He told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that Zambia has a lot of tourism products and beautiful sceneries that needed to be marketed in order to stimulate growth in the tourism sector.
“Zambia cannot wait to benefit from the regional Southern African Tourism Exposition. Government should do everything possible to market the event,” he said.
Dr Kaunda has however challenged government to put in place extra measures aimed at enhancing the growth of the tourism sector, citing infrastructure development such as roads, airports and hotels.
He cited the implementation of the Private-Public Partnership (PPP) initiative as one of the extra remedial measures that government must put in place to facilitate the growth of the country’s tourism sector.
He further urged the Zambia Tourism Board (ZTB) and tour operators in the country to take advantage of the forthcoming 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup tournament in South Africa and the 2011 All African Games in Zambia to showcase the country’s massive tourism potential.
Dr Kaunda said Zambia should seriously devise a mechanism aimed at attracting more tourist inflows in an effort to increase foreign revenue in the tourism sector.
He said that ZTB must come up with a carnival type of tourism which would enable the country to market its tourism potential meaningfully to other regions.
Meanwhile, First Republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda has urged countries under the Kavango-Zambezi Trans-frontier Conservation Development Plan (KAZA) to take advantage of the region’s integrated development programme with a view to uplift the living standards of their people.
Dr Kaunda said countries under the KAZA programme should rise to the challenge of wealth creation and endeavor to uplift the living standards of people by embracing the goals set under the KAZA programme.
He said the Zambian government and other countries should embrace the newly launched KAZA integrated development plan aimed at boosting the employment opportunities and wealth creation in the Southern African region.
Dr Kaunda noted that the KAZA integrated development, which will target five countries in the Southern African region once implemented, will help unlock the economic development potential through developing other new tourism resorts.
He said the Zambian government should remain committed to supporting the KAZA integrated programme, which he said was a major economic avenue to the country’s programme of improving its citizens’ living standards.
Countries that are set to benefit from the Kavango-Zambezi Trans-frontier Integrated Development Plan are Namibia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia.
And speaking in a separate interview in Lusaka today, Chinese Ambassador to Zambia Li Qiangmin urged the Zambian government to work out effective modalities of marketing the country’s tourism potential on the international market.
Mr. Li said there was need to improve infrastructure such as roads, hotels and airports that lead to tourism destinations so as to attract more people.
The Chinese envoy to Zambia however expressed happiness at the manner in which the Zambian tourism sector was growing.
Mr. Li said because of the good micro-economic policies that the Zambian government has continued to put in place, the country has over the past five years recorded unprecedented growth in the tourism sector.
He said the unprecedented growth in the sector has also contributed favourably to the Gross Domestic Products (GDP) of the country.
He said this has contributed to employment creation and poverty reduction in country’s most communities.
Mr. Li has since urged Zambian business people to take advantage of the prevailing atmosphere and invest in the tourism sector as a powerful means of their economic gains.
ZANIS/TK/KSH/ENDS
Mwanawasa is in hospital ba kaunda
#1
yes we know but it doesn’t mean we should stop development because Mr Mwanawasa is in hospital.
Am glad that Dr Kaunda has realized the potential of tourism in our country were jobs can be created for people.
Nadi: zambia survived long before ba Mwanawasa and will continue long after him. the whole country can’t come to standstill because one man is sick/gone. i mean honestly zambians lose their own lives and the lives of their loved ones every hour to a whole host of atrocities and ba mwanawasa’s government doesn’t even blink at such losses or do much to prevent them.
#1,2 and 3, i thought this topic is about KK and tourism.noti ukupasuka uku mulechita.(diverting from the topic).
# LPM is important because Zambia(people of zambia) trusted him in his office. Now that he is hospitalized in france the whole country cant shift to paris. Zambia needs to make progress with or without LPM. Get better soon LPM.
#4 thank you for educating these boys who have no clue about zambia.
Super Ken!!! Wumyayaya … you just gotta love the codger.
Truly Zambia is bigger than any individual, it is an artificial Human being which longs to grow. Yes the President is sick, which i believe all of us are so concerned, but should things remain standstill because of his sickness? Should people postpone their weedings for fear of being cited insensitive? should we forget about our own family bereavements because of his sickness? As someone who resides in livingstone am so thrilled that such an event is going to be in Livingstone, am just concerned with the shape of our road system. I hope by then all strategic roads will be done and maguys ba tusimbi would have been discouraged, because they really smack people’s heads with iron bars!
We are NOT doing anything to improve tourism.We are just lucky and tourists are making Zambia an alternative to the Zim situation.The day ZIm is back and stable we will wallow back to slubber.All the talk does not build roads, airports, hotels, etc.We still have parks with no access in rainy season, thats bu11.Lets listen to these old grey haired men , and do it! Kainga Do it.
#2 to 8 or even 9.It is narrowly and superficial thinking on your parts to presuppose that the country would come to a stand still because of the first comment i have made.Well my friends it is not the speech of Dr Kaunda nor the life of any being that will make any nation or life within that nation to go on,it is the will of God.The scale of determinant,of mans continuity is not by any hand of man or incident.Those who have understood life have come to understand that a government must not be based on man but on the system that continously run regardless of what happens.Man must just be the overseer.How many speeches have been made since time immemorial buy our leaders and where is Zam….
From #10..bia today?How many speeches has Dr kaunda made do you think this one today will change the nation?Is it today that tourism can make any difference in Zambia?But i believe that strong nations are built when people care,when people have compassion and a strong desire to help in every other way and this must be demonstrated by our elders those who believe that they have an important space to occupy in soceity.I have not seen or even heard one word from Dr Kaunda on this blog wishing Mwanawasa well.
Why does’nt KK do some piece-work as interim president? It would be good for Zambia and earn him some cash at the same time.
#11
The point has been made already that the topic is about KK and Tourism so please don’t act as if you are the most compassionate Zambian regarding the President’s illness. There’s plenty of space elsewhere on this site to make your comments. In caseyou didn’t know, tourism has built the economies of nations like Kenya, Mauritius, Zanzibar to mention a few. Our tourism industry is a sleeping giant and that’s the point the old man was making. If you have been to just a few of our provinces e.g. Luapula, Northern, Eastern you will appreciate the potential that lies untapped. Be serious!
#12 My preceding comment goes for you as well. If you don’t have anything constructive to say, please keep quiet and observe. It’s called wisdom.
Over my dead body.We don’t benefit in such events, Zambia is used in most cases so i feel so negatively because we have never demonstrated in any positive side of it.ZNTB should improve on there marketing strategies or otherwise.I still welcome this event at least some chaps will make good pocket money and come out without any constructive matters, we all know about this eh.
We take advantage of Zim situation at the moment but, nothing looks like we are doing better no no.I cannot understand this all issue
#10 Read my comment before incl me in your tirade.
Agreed wit u #15.And as zambians we should learn to sell our country.But the GRZ should improve infrastructure such as access to parks, airports, etc.Pointless, wanting pipo to come and visit Zed when they cannot enjoy their time.GRZ should set up Info offices in all tourist attarctive towns, expand our airports, set up a national carrier and automate the border posts … please in this age filling those A3 books is pathetic.
Those useless procedures at the borders make useless any attempt to improve tourism. Imagine having to take 2 long hours at the border and only to have a glimpse of a tail of a supposedly mature lion. Do you see sence?
Having to pay $700.00 for one night on top of that having to buy bottled water, looking aimlessly for a supposed street which ever eludes you. No street names. You will find the place by that big tree as someone directed.
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Hemorrhagic stroke
Overview
Symptoms
Treatment
Prevention
Definition:
Hemorrhagic stroke involves bleeding within the brain, which damages nearby brain tissue. See also:
Hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage
Alternative Names:
Brain bleeding; Brain hemorrhage; Stroke – hemorrhagic
Causes, incidence, and risk factors:
Hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a blood vessel bursts inside the brain. The brain is very sensitive to bleeding and damage can occur very rapidly, either because of the presence of the blood itself, or because the fluid increases pressure on the brain and harms it by pressing it against the skull.
Bleeding irritates the brain tissue
#21,I understand the little first aid course you learnt about SHOCK anyway well explained too, but you are out of topic learn to read the contents first and then write something little constructive, are you from ZNTB as well?
LT when are you updating your page?Today is 08th July 2008 or you have guys gone for Trade fair in the copperbelt province?
#13.It is really sad that you cannot see that am talking about KK.With all your abilities and mind you have succeeded in misrepresenting me.In my writing on #11 there is no action of most compassionate but a belief of how strong nations are built.Again if you read carefully there is no where i have suggested that tourism does not suport economic growth.In my opinion not even yours Dr Kaunda is not the right person to comment on such things as this.What living standards did he improve for him to remind the government?Did you not roit in Zambia?Are you of a trancient memory or is it that as Zambians we suffer from amnesia?#16 i only differ with you on your last sentence,the past is the past.
….tourism is not only about attracting more tourist to bring more revenue, but putting that revenue to good use too, to ensure good growth and an increase in a better flow of quality tourists too…otherwise whats the purpose of a business that is making profits but not growing at all…
…..bushe who is in-charge of tourism pa Zed kanshi??? Because with the Zimbabwean situation Zambia should have really and big time benefited from Tourism and Agriculture. Zambia can never go wrong nor give excuses for failing in these two sectors
#26 you are talking.Tourism just as agriculture-credit to Mwanawasa government they have tried on this one-should be the boosting ventures of the economy.Zambias wood is good for animals but neglected and again been destroyed every day.The wood has significantly changed from the time of independence the population has grown and people settle any how,people make villages any how without control.Man when not controlled is so distractive.He kills every thing he can find to eat even rats,He cuts all the trees around him for charcoal.These activities have long effects on the evironment and every thing that depends on it.However the hosting is good and must encourage government to do more.
I totaly agree with you #18,19 balondolwele mani.