{"id":179143,"date":"2024-08-24T03:42:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T01:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-ltdc-collects-m4-million-from-tourism-levies\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T03:42:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T01:42:59","slug":"lesotho-ltdc-collects-m4-million-from-tourism-levies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-ltdc-collects-m4-million-from-tourism-levies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: LTDC Collects M4 Million From Tourism Levies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC) has collected M4 million in levies since the introduction of the Tourism Levy Regulations, 2021, about 18 months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The funds have been used to spruce up the LTDC&#8217;s corporate image and capacitate the Lesotho Council on Tourism (LCT), which supports tourism companies, among other things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Additionally, the funds have been used to cater for the LTDC&#8217;s participation in the annual Africa Travel Indaba for two consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The tourism levy is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408160406.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC) has collected M4 million in levies since the introduction of the Tourism Levy Regulations, 2021, about 18 months ago. The funds have been used to spruce up the LTDC&#8217;s corporate image and capacitate the Lesotho Council on Tourism (LCT), which supports tourism companies, among other things. Additionally, the funds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,25489,4717,1407,18879,44480,5118,257,254,1634],"class_list":["post-179143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collects","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-levies","tag-ltdc","tag-million","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}