Vice President Inonge Wina says government is determined to enhance the tourism potential through holding high level meetings in the tourist capital.
Speaking on arrival at Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula airport Mrs. Wina said government will be hosting many meetings to enhance the tourism potential.
Mrs Wina urged the residents of Livingstone to be courteous to visitors so that they are known for their hospitality and generosity.
Mrs. Wina is in Livingstone to officially open an investor conference for the four billion U.S. dollar Batoka hydro electricity project.
She said the Batoka Hydro electricity project was one of the biggest projects that the government of Zambia and Zimbabwe will be implementing.
The Vice President observed that the two governments were engaged in a similar project in the early 1950s when they constructed the Kariba dam which has enhanced industrial development of the two countries and benefiting the people.
The conference has attracted potential financiers from across the world to mobilize resources in the 2400 megawatts power project.
The project is co-owned by Zambia and Zimbabwe through the Zambezi River Authority- ZRA.
The conference which has been convened by ZRA Council of Ministers from the two countries.
I agree, having PF Cabinet meetings and ICC consultation meetings in Livingston will help the tourism capital alot.
What a joke first, Kariba Dam was build when Zim and Zam were one country (federation of Rhodesia)
the other is this dam will destroy most of the tourism in Livingstone as in a good flood the water will back up to the falls -do the math and the only hotels to benefit will be the 2 Sun hotels and David Livingstone spa where this meeting is. the zim side is where the action is with all the lodges, hotels, tour and trained staff. Livingstone has poorly trained staff and new gov’t levies that make tour operators struggle. the uni visa allows tourists to land at Livingstone and then go to zim where they stay and spend money and only transit to the airport in Livingstone. I’ve seen 75% of the aircraft passengers get off the plane and jump on a zim bus.
Common sense regarding the Batoka Dam for the Hydro Electricity project is not being applied in the imagination of those involved in the planning as no one seems to recognize that those who sited the Kariba Dam lower down the Zambezi River from the Mosi Oa Tunya falls had done their environmental assessment professionally! I have reason to think we now have dimwits touting the Batoka Dam project while failing to offer solutions towards managing Kariba Dam electricity generation. For clandestine reasons Zambia and Zimbabwe are not seeing beyond their noses as foresight is being blinded by lucrative offerings from the dam advanced by those greedy enough with an agenda wishing to wipe off one of the worlds Wonders!
Is this woman really serious or just too dull to understand what is going on?
The project is not “co-owned” by Zambia and Zim. IF it ever happens, and that is a very, very big IF, it will be “owned” by the investors that provide the money to build it.
Because both LUNGU and MUGABE have stolen so much money that both countries are BROKE, and have borrowed even more to steal so much more that they are both BEGGING the IMF to lend them even MORE to prevent their economies collapsing completely!
Win a is either just a senile I.diot or also a thief assisting these thieves.
Tutu Winas have always been privileged *****s who cant think beyond their miseducated colonized minds. I fail to understand why a woman of her age is left to nurse her old age body pains in an office that clearly demands a young energetic vibrant individual to shoulder the day to day govt duties.