Gaborone, Botswana, 2018-Feb-22 — /Travel PR News/ — The project funded by Peace Parks Foundation, the implementing agency of the Kavango Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area Programme (KAZA), funded by the German Development Bank, had four objectives:
Mr. Jimmy R. Opelo, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism of Botswana, officially presented the updated Tourism Satellite Account for Botswana for the reference year 2016. The main results show that tourism contributes 4.9% directly to the Botswana GDP, up from 3.9% in the previous TSA exercise.
This is the third time that Botswana has prepared a TSA – all three times in collaboration with the UNWTO.
In 2016, Botswana received 1.9 million visitor arrivals which generated USD 1.5 billion. Tourism employed about 18,670 people in Botswana.
Contacts:
UNWTO Media Officer
Marcelo Risi
Tel: (+34) 91 567 81 60
mrisi@unwto.org
UNWTO Communications & Publications Programme
Tel: (+34) 91 567 8100
Fax: +34 91 567 8218
comm@UNWTO.org
Source: UNWTO
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