Tourism is future of Zambia’s economic recovery

TOURISM and agriculture offers a quick opportunity, strong fundamental base for Zambia's economic recovery!

Tourism and agriculture are key economic formulas, which can help to revive Zambia's fundamental performances.

If we see the actual normalisation of life coming back especially from the shackles of Covid-19, Zambia as a nation should go in high gear with tourism and agriculture.

Tourism has placed a huge centrepiece in growing country's economic aspirations.

We can attest from our two comparative African nations in the region Kenya and Rwanda which are busy drawing huge chunks of money at micro levels, and are strongly driven by these two sectors of the economy such as tourism and agriculture domains.

The tourism sector if carefully enhanced and not downplayed on many forums, can bring about some substantial quantum of resourceful funds into Zambia's annual GDP.

If enhanced frameworks are properly aligned on the strategic sector growth-driven policies and are carefully addressed as required, then we should see national development taken out from these powerful sectorial areas.

Zambia should moderate a strong political will towards building a sustainable hospitality industry and gravitate in those tourism potentialities within the sector to revamp the local economy.

There is a strong need for Government, policymakers, businesses stakeholders and various economic players to utilise full potentials involved in the tourism industry.

Zambia can survive without the help of a mining sector if only proper policy engagements and models of implementations in both tourism and agriculture are rightly taken and applied. And this should be a matter of policy framework, implementations and decisive actions for the good of the Zambian economy.