The plans to create the world’s largest game park in Africa are at last finalised at a meeting in Botswana in southern Africa.
The designed conservation area will overlap the borders of Botswana, Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Zambia.
The newly created park will fetch in tourists from all parts of the world to such attractions as Okavango swamps, the Victoria Falls, Chobe National Park and Caprivi Strip. The officials taking part in this tourism venture believe that it will help to develop regional tourism ahead of the 2010 World Cup to take place in South Africa.
The prosposed Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Park will cost an estimated $100m to set up and is expected to contribute significantly to job creation in the five countries named above.
At the moment Africa’s largest game park is the 35,000-square-kilometre Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park on the borders of Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
While the southern African region has full-size potential as an Africa safari destination, those assembled in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, said that a lot needs to be done to bring in more tours to the region.
“The major issue is about sustainable tourism,” Botswana’s Tourism Minister Kitso Mokaila said. “Tourism is a revenue generator and therefore if we can get the conservation issue right then I think we can start talking more positively and more confidently about sustainable tourism.”
This conference yielded the future of Southern Africa tourism and Africa as a whole. This will raise the diversity of safari together with the frequency of tours made attractions in Africa.
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