Posted by Botswana Safari News on March 13, 2019 | No comments
Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism Kitso Mokaila
has reminded the local tourism industry to remember where ‘its bread is buttered’ and fight alongside government in the ongoing issue of the return of trophy
hunting.
Mokaila was speaking during a ceremony organized by Cresta
Hotels in Gaborone on Tuesday to welcome him back to the ministry.
Mokaila said: ”
We will not back off and change our minds in terms
of what we are going to do. As HATAB you must remember where your bread is buttered
and support us.”
Botswana has of late faced a storm of international
condemnation after it announced plans to return trophy hunting.
Mokaila also revealed that Botswana will finally have a Tourism Development
Strategy. .He said the new tourism marketing drive will include community-based tourism.
According to Mokaila, past tourism marketing plans marketed Botswana
as an exclusive wildlife destination and
therefore excluded the communities.
He said: “Part of why we are currently under attack internationally is that we have always sold Botswana as an exclusive
wildlife destination and ignored to
include our communities who conserved these animals. We are going to
rebrand this.”
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