{"id":237205,"date":"2026-06-23T17:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-govt-moves-to-review-2009-tourism-act\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:58:54","slug":"botswana-govt-moves-to-review-2009-tourism-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-govt-moves-to-review-2009-tourism-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Govt Moves to Review 2009 Tourism Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Gaborone \u2014 Government has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming Botswana&#8217;s tourism industry through a comprehensive review of the Tourism Act of 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The review aims to unlock the sector&#8217;s full potential and strengthen its contribution to economic growth, employment creation and diversification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking at the Tourism Act review stakeholder consultation in Gaborone recently, Minister of Environment and Tourism, Mr Wynter Mmolotsi said the review marked a significant milestone in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606230644.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 Government has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming Botswana&#8217;s tourism industry through a comprehensive review of the Tourism Act of 2009. The review aims to unlock the sector&#8217;s full potential and strengthen its contribution to economic growth, employment creation and diversification. Speaking at the Tourism Act review stakeholder consultation in Gaborone recently, Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237206,"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":[2461],"tags":[6991,258,256,4718,2462,4357,6858,257,6399,254,1634],"class_list":["post-237205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-govt","tag-moves","tag-news","tag-review","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\/237205","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=237205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}