Zimbabwe is constructing Africa’s longest airport runway, according to Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) officials. CAAZ officials say the runway which is being built as part of the country’s airport expansion project which started in 2002 will be longer than even the runways at Africa’s biggest and busiest airport, OR Tambo International Airport in [...]
The Ministry of Tourism and the Hospitality Industry are compiling a national database for the drafting of a national tourism policy. The policy aims to promote the sustainability of tourism operations, curb leakages in the sector and promote investment. It will clearly articulate the government’s vision for the sector, define objectives for tourism development and [...]
Zimbabwe – GOVERNMENT no longer has capacity to run Air Zimbabwe alone and urgently needs an equity partner to salvage the national flag airline, analysts and aviation experts have said. The experts and analysts also say besides an equity partner, there was an urgent need to appoint a business strategist as chief executive to usher [...]
HARARE – Wowed by the sterling performance of international poet Albert Nyathi and the Bulawayo Kwela Calabash, Lisa Morgan, Miss Tourism Zimbabwe, threw shyness to the wind and took to the dance floor much to the surprise of more than 200 HIFA guests. (Pictured: Miss Tourism Zimbabwe gets down with Albert Nyathi) Clad in blue [...]
Harare, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe’s tourism earnings jumped 47 percent last year to US$ 770 million on the back of rising visitor numbers, an industry agency reported Friday. The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) said in a report that 2.3 million foreign visitors came to Zimbabwe last year, representing a 15 percent increase compared to the previous [...]
THE fate of Air Zimbabwe chairman Jonathan Kadzura hangs in the balance as he has reportedly quit the troubled airline amid talk that he had fallen out of favour with Transport minister Nicholas Goche over the recent strike by the airline’s pilots. Transport minister Nicholas Goche, to whom Kadzura is supposed to have submitted his [...]
Experts said Air Zimbabwe could readily be privatized, but the indigenization or black empowerment plan being energetically advanced by the ZANU-PF side of the government makes foreign investors queasy. Air Zimbabwe commercial jets are in the air again following a three-week strike by pilots and cabin crew, but aviation experts say the future for the [...]
HARARE -Zimbabwe’s tourism industry earned about 13 percent of the impoverished state’s gross domestic product in 2010 and should grow an average 6.9 percent annually over the next decade, a minister said on Monday. Zimbabwe, isolated and shunned by the West for suspected human rights abuses under President Robert Mugabe, has made steady gains in [...]
ZIMBABWE will launch its tourism brand, Zimbabwe: A World of Wonders, at the Indaba Tourism Expo to be held in Durban, South Africa, from May 7 to 10. This is one of the biggest promotions on the tourism industry in Africa. It is to be held at Durban’s Albert Luthuli Convention Centre. In an interview, [...]
Air Zimbabwe board chairperson Jonathan Kadzura is turning the corner whilst describing the aborted flight from Harare to Victoria Falls as “normal in the aviation industry”. One of the airline’s Boeing 767 was on Sunday forced to abort a flight to Victoria Falls and return to Harare International Airport after developing a technical fault. “It’s [...]