{"id":232273,"date":"2026-05-04T04:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-keulder-tourism-has-potential-to-grow-on-positive-trajectory\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T04:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:05:38","slug":"namibia-keulder-tourism-has-potential-to-grow-on-positive-trajectory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-keulder-tourism-has-potential-to-grow-on-positive-trajectory\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Keulder &#8211; Tourism Has Potential to Grow On Positive Trajectory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">WALVISBAY <em>&#8211;<\/em> Tourism operator Theunis Keulder is optimistic that Namibia&#8217;s tourism sector can grow to grater heights, in the end contributing maximally towards the country&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">He made these remarks during a recent exclusive interview with <em>New Era<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">This publication previously reported that the tourism sector has not only recovered from Covid-19 setbacks but also surged beyond pre-pandemic figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Recent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604300390.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>WALVISBAY &#8211; Tourism operator Theunis Keulder is optimistic that Namibia&#8217;s tourism sector can grow to grater heights, in the end contributing maximally towards the country&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP). He made these remarks during a recent exclusive interview with New Era. This publication previously reported that the tourism sector has not only recovered from Covid-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232274,"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":[258,256,11916,54329,4706,724,257,6594,9398,254,1634,31320],"class_list":["post-232273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-grow","tag-keulder","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-positive","tag-potential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourism","tag-trajectory"],"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\/232273","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=232273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}