African states urged to step up investments in tourism
President Samia Suluhu Hassan (2nd L) and her counterpart Paul Kagame attend the opening ceremony of the 23rd Global Summit of the World Travel and Tourism Council in Kigali, Rwanda. PHOTO | X via @
A global meeting on tourism has kicked off in Kigali, Rwanda on Thursday with calls to African governments to step up investment in the sector to tap its potential to foster the region’s socio-economic development.
This is because, despite the steady growth of tourism in Africa, tourism has not fully realised its full potential, a situation which is mainly attributed to several bottlenecks in the tourism sector such as the narrow tourism product offer which is mostly focused on wildlife-based tourism at the expense of other tourism segments.
