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The conference is being held over the next three days.
Hotels and lodges in Bulawayo are fully booked.
President Mugabe is expected to arrive in Bulawayo today for a tree-planting ceremony at Milton High School.
He will officially open the conference at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) grounds tomorrow.
Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial chairman Cde Isaac Dakamela said the city was ready to receive thousands of delegates and expressed satisfaction with the preparations.
“We have done all the accommodation allocations and personnel have been selected to give directions to the guests,” he said.
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“Accommodation has been allocated according to categories that include Politburo members, Central Committee, provincial leaders, district co-ordinating committee (DCCs) and other stakeholders such as war veterans, restrictees and detainees association leaders.”
Cde Dakamela said accreditation was continuing at Bulawayo Polytechnic.
Some delegates will be accommodated in colleges and schools.
Officials from Bulawayo hotels and lodges said the conference had boosted business.
“We are fully booked this week. This is an indication that business is improving because of this conference. We will provide dinner, breakfast and accommodation to the delegates and that is good business for us,” said an official at Hotel Rio, who preferred anonymity.
An official at Rainbow Hotel said: “All the rooms in our hotel are fully booked for this week and we are geared for brisk business.”
Lodge owners said they were satisfied with business.
“There is good business this week because of the conference and all our rooms are taken,” said a worker at Mpala Lodges.
A business exhibition, which runs concurrently with the conference, started at ZITF yesterday with 19 exhibitors and more than 50 informal traders taking up stands.
A number of exhibitors in the agricultural, mining, telecommunications and manufacturing sectors had already set up stands.
Zanu-PF national fundraising committee chairman Cde Noah Mangondo said all exhibitors will be on site today.
Forty companies and over 150 informal traders are expected to participate at the business expo, which runs until Saturday.
Cde Mangondo said the exhibition was meant to boost business opportunities in line with the indigenisation and economic empowerment policies.
“Indigenisation is the brainchild of Zanu-PF and this exhibition seeks to promote the participation of ordinary Zimbabweans in the national economy,” he said.
“No wonder why we have more than 150 informal traders taking part in the expo as they seek to be upgraded into big companies.”
President Mugabe has said this year’s conference is very crucial as it is the last before elections expected next year.
The conference will discuss the state of the economy with emphasis on indigenisation, agriculture, mining and manufacturing. — Herald Reporter/Bulawayo Bureau.
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