UNWTO hosting: State needs support
THE private sector in Zambia has been urged to complement the Government efforts towards the successful hosting of the 20th session of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) general assembly in Livingstone and Victoria Falls town next year.
Institute of Directors Southern Region vice-president Frederick Mwendapole said there was need for the private sector to give maximum support to the Government in the hosting of the UNWTO general assembly.
In a response to a Press query, Mr Mwendapole said the hosting of the general assembly was a huge task which required both the private and public sector to work together.
“The President of Zambia, Michael Sata and his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe have already set the pace for everyone to work on and we should all put the best to see to it that the UNWTO general assembly succeeds.
“The private sector must therefore, give maximum support to the public sector in this regard so that we complement each other,” he said.
Mr Mwendapole, who is Bicentenary Livingstone 2013 liaison officer, said the recent trilateral hosting agreement signing ceremony of Zambia, Zimbabwe and the UNWTO was moving and exciting.
He said the two presidents and UNWTO secretary general Taleb Rifai did their part by putting Zambia and Zimbabwe on the word map and everyone should now be looking forward to the success of the assembly next year.
“For Zambia and Zimbabwe to have agreed to work together on this very important mission through our two ministers of Tourism for Zambia and Zimbabwe just shows how much our two presidents are valuing the existing relationship which the rest of us must appreciate,” he said.
In October 2011, Zambia and Zimbabwe won a bid to co-host the 20th Session of the 186-member General Assembly to be held in 2013 in Livingstone and Victoria Falls town, in Zimbabwe.
The general assembly is the principal gathering of the UNWTO which meets after every two years to consider the budget and programme of work for the United Nations specialised agency on tourism.
Delegates to the general assembly are drawn from the six regional commissions of the UNWTO from Africa, the Americas, the East and Pacific Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.
More than 3,000 delegates across the world are expected to attend the event in Zambia and Zimbabwe next year
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