Recently, the Acting President Dr. Guy Scott and his
wife Dr. Charlotte Harland Scott, spent
their Christmas holiday in the pristine
Lower Zambezi National Park (LZNP) on a working holiday. Dr. Scott noted Zambia’s
huge potential for tourism development compared to some regional and competing
destinations but wondered ‘why we are just busy mining copper’.
We wish to
add our support to the Acting President’s call to encourage indigenous Zambian’s
active participation in the development of tourism in the country rather than concentrating
on copper mining.
He observed
that as a country, "We just have to put our house in order. We need to get
ourselves organized. We have better National Parks, so let us develop what we have”.
We wish to
add our support to the Acting President’s call to encourage indigenous Zambian’s
active participation in the development of tourism in the country rather than concentrating
on copper mining.
We further
note that the local tourism market is not well developed. The private sector
has an important role to play in this regard by, among other things, offering
locally affordable tourist packages.
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