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Sharlien Tjambari
On Tuesday this week, Rössing Uranium handed over, to the Namibian Police, four fully repaired vehicles belonging to the Namibian Police after a request to repair the vehicles was received from the police head office in the Erongo region. The Managing Director of Rössing Uranium, Johan Coetzee said, “as affirmed by our Rössing slogan, 'Working for Namibia' today, we are again going to demonstrate this continued support to the Continues on page 2
Local governments and the tourism sector need to Sharlien Tjambari work together The Namibia Tourism Board's first ever Tourism Symposium, aimed at aiding the Ministry of Environment and Tourism in supporting its tourism revival plan, shared the latest ideas and developments from across tourism at Swakopmund on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Themed 'Re-imaging stronger together spirit', the Tourism Symposium's main objectives are to gather key tourism stakeholders to share mind changes and rethink doing tourism business in an unusual approach. Another objective is to create a platform for dialogues around the current and future business ecosystem environment that will contribute towards the sustainability of the tourism sector and finally provide hands-on training and exchanges to operators within tourism, in particular SMEs, to improve and reposition business operations efficiently to be competitive in the marketplace. In her remarks, the Chairperson of the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB), Madelein /Goagoses said the tourism symposium is indeed the platform for cross-sectoral deliberations and recommendations. “The Symposium's speakers, carefully selected, whom we believe have a great passion for this industry, will discuss global trends, challenges, and opportunities facing tourism. /Goagoses further said, “surely, to sustain market growth, we need to broaden the range of our tourism products. Apart from the major tourism offering currently on the market, as we are looking for further diversity in the years ahead, Namibia can offer a whole range of "niche" tourism opportunities such as green tourism, cultural heritage products, spa facili-
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ties, and agritourism.” According to /Goagoses, the symposium aims to offer the various participants an area for reflection on the concepts, means of implementation, and methods for involving tourism in the tourism product offering stage to gain a better experience. “These challenges present a real opportunity to enrich the approaches in the field of tourism product development by allowing us to confront experiences from different angles about domestic and international travelers.” /Goagoses said the future for tourism is looking good and the opportunity is there for local governments and the tourism sector to work together to maximize the benefits. The tourism symposium was attended by local delegates from the Namibia tourism landscape, and international speakers from Switzerland, South Africa, and Tanzania, with about 50-70 delegates in attendance.
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