{"id":227667,"date":"2026-03-21T01:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-gondwana-backs-tourism-protection-efforts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T01:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:52:37","slug":"namibia-gondwana-backs-tourism-protection-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-gondwana-backs-tourism-protection-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Gondwana Backs Tourism Protection Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Ensuring that visitors to Namibia feel safe and informed from the moment they arrive in country is a growing priority within the tourism sector.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Recent collaboration between the tourism sector, Gondwana Collection Namibia and the Namibian Police&#8217;s Tourism Protection Unit reflects ongoing efforts to strengthen tourist safety while maintaining Namibia&#8217;s reputation as a welcoming destination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Chief inspector Christina van-Dunem da Fonsech, who heads the newly established Tourism Protection Unit,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200354.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ensuring that visitors to Namibia feel safe and informed from the moment they arrive in country is a growing priority within the tourism sector. Recent collaboration between the tourism sector, Gondwana Collection Namibia and the Namibian Police&#8217;s Tourism Protection Unit reflects ongoing efforts to strengthen tourist safety while maintaining Namibia&#8217;s reputation as a welcoming destination. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":227668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7102,6357,37574,4706,724,257,7897,254,1634],"class_list":["post-227667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-efforts","tag-gondwana","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-protection","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/227667","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=227667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}