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Tourists flock to Victoria Falls despite misleading reports
As the festive season unfolded, Victoria Falls, the heart of Zimbabwe's tourism industry, came alive with an influx of visitors from around the world, despite misleading rumors suggesting that the ico...Published: 29 Dec 2024 at 08:45hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Miss Universe to arrive in Zimbabwe today
RReigning Miss Universe, Sheynnis Palacios, is set to arrive in Zimbabwe today for a familiarisation tour. She will land at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport at 3:30 PM, accompanied by her m...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 06:57hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banks on civil servants in tourism push
The Zimbabwean government is proposing a scheme where civil servants would contribute monthly towards end-of-year holidays to boost domestic tourism, despite widespread poverty among workers. ...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:59hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records over 1 million tourists in 9 months
Zimbabwe's tourism industry received over one million tourists between January and September last year, representing a 52 percent growth compared to the same period in 2022, putting the industry on co...Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 08:04hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Tourists flock to Kariba for the famous bream
LAKE Kariba is arguably one of Africa's best, and prettiest spots to execute fishing expeditions.Over 40 different fish species call the lake home from shoals of Kapenta to the fighting Tiger ...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:08hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ZITF roars to life
THE 63rd edition of the premium trade exhibition — the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair — kicks off in Bulawayo today amid high optimism that the platform will strengthen existing business linkag...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Africa stuck in generational curse
WHOEVER bewitched African leaders probably perished at Nagasaki in 1945, many years before the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in 1963. That person, alongside his tools of trade and hi...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 13 | by Sapien Sapien
City dam levels double as rainfall pattern holds
BULAWAYO residents are set to go for the entire year without experiencing the dreaded water-shedding regime with the city's supply dams continuing to receive significant inflows.The situation ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Good road network vital to revive domestic tourism
THE tourism industry has implored the Government to urgently fix the country's major roads that have been damaged by heavy rains to ensure smooth domestic travel. A majority of the country's r...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moving to tighten his dead man's grip on power
AFTER his initial daring purges of military commanders who propelled him to power through a military coup in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now capitalising on political contingency an...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ministers Covid-19 deaths strike fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's VIPs
This comes as Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza died of Covid-19 today. Four ministers, including Matiza, have so far died. Others are Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Moyo. Former minister A...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Local tourist falls into into the Victoria Falls gorge on New year's eve
This is bad news for all people in our country. The department responsible for erection of fences to protect people from falling or slipping into the gauge was surely negligent. Of course, there might...Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 17:44hrs | 1 | by Njabulo
Pricing madness hits Victoria Falls
NZALA Milimo was born in Victoria Falls in 1974 and did her primary and secondary education at public schools in the resort town's ghetto townships.But unlike the thousands of well-heeled fore...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tourism sector grosses $1 billion
Considerable dividends have begun to accrue to Zimbabwe as Government and the private sector continue to ratchet up efforts to promote Zimbabwe as a safe destination. The tourism sector has since gros...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Great Zimbabwe records boom in tourists
TOURISM in Masvingo province is on a rebound with the Great Zimbabwe monuments alone recording 60 000 tourist arrivals since the beginning of 2018. National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New tour activity a hit in Victoria Falls
A NEWLY introduced tour activity, abseiling, has become a hit in Victoria Falls with scores of local tourists flocking to sample it to view the majestic waterfall during the just ended Easter holidays...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt to refurbish Hwange National Airport
GOVERNMENT is planning to refurbish the underutilised Hwange National Park Airport into an international facility with some investors already showing interest in the project, a Cabinet Minister has sa...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Local tourists moan high charges
LOCAL tourists have appealed to tour operators to reduce charges for the various activities which they say are very high and as such work against efforts to promote domestic tourism.The Govern...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi's MP seat challenged
HARARE - Former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi has been challenged in the looming elections this year for his Zanu PF Masvingo South Constituency MP seat by the ruling party's youth member, Wi...Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
New Beitbridge hotel set to boost tourism
A NEWLY built hotel in Beitbridge worth thousands of dollars is set to boost tourism and economic development in the border town as well as create 50 new jobs.The 30-roomed Zhove Leisure Park ...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe holiday mystery deepens
MYSTERY over President Robert Mugabe's whereabouts deepened yesterday, after he was reportedly said to have met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, y...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council accused of massive abuse of resources
Harare City Council has been accused of massive abuse of resources amid concerns that is why it is failing to deliver services to the residents.Harare Residents Trust said there was massive ab...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Victoria Falls hotel occupancy up
AVERAGE hotel occupancies in the tourists' favourite Victoria Falls shot to 100 percent during the festive season, up from 80 percent.However, arrivals from key regional source markets, South ...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim domestic tourism poised to grow
Domestic tourism is poised to grow this year following affordable packages put in place by the hospitality industry, an official said Wednesday.Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) head of public ...Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 06:11hrs | | by New Ziana
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