Tourism
19th March 2020
Own Correspondent
The Minister of Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism, Philda N. Kereng, officially re-opened both Mombo and King’s Pool, Wilderness Safaris’ Premier camps in Botswana’s Okavango Delta and Linyanti Wildlife Reserve.
Participants at the Global Sustainability Tourism Conference(GSTC) in Maun have warned that unless local communities receive Government support to patent indigenous products like traditional baskets they faced being marginalised by multi-nationals that could steal their intelluctual property, rich historical cultural heritage and undermine their way of life.
Former President Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama has called for a symbiotic relationship between host communities and the tourism product to further stakeholder co-operation.
