{"id":4244,"date":"2014-07-18T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T04:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2014-07-18T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T04:56:57","slug":"chinese-tourists-remain-zimbabwe-shy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/chinese-tourists-remain-zimbabwe-shy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tourists remain Zimbabwe shy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese nationals, whose government is touted an all-weather friend by Zimbabwe, have largely skirted the troubled African country, preferring other regional destinations, a government minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 80,000 Chinese tourists who visit southern Africa annually, Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi told Parliament Wednesday, Zimbabwe has seen a paltry 5,000 visiting, despite the country boasting one of the world&#8217;s natural wonders, the Victoria Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Mzembi said his ministry has since invented an elaborate strategy to capture a significant chunk of the gallivanting lot to help resuscitate the country&#8217;s ailing economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SADC region on average is receiving between 70,000 to 80,000 Chinese tourists per year and l refer here to Zambia, South Africa and other countries in the region Mozambique included&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it is extremely unfortunate that Zimbabwe, which prides itself as an all-weather friend of the Chinese, is only receipting just over 5,000 Chinese tourists per annum,&#8221; he said, responding to questions from back-benchers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/business-16810-Chinese+tourists+remain+Zimbabwe+shy\/business.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese nationals, whose government is touted an all-weather friend by Zimbabwe, have largely skirted the troubled African country, preferring other regional destinations, a government minister has said. Out of 80,000 Chinese tourists who visit southern Africa annually, Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi told Parliament Wednesday, Zimbabwe has seen a paltry 5,000 visiting, despite the country boasting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,2921,435,2919,257,254,4693,2013,2920,2010,4686,421],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-all-weather-friend-of-the-chinese","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-tourists","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-tourists","tag-troubled-african-country","tag-victoria-falls","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}