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The 20-room wing known as the Victoria Falls Safari Club comprises four club suites and 16 club rooms that are 50 percent larger than the existing standard rooms at the safari lodge.
The wing will also offer private check-in and check-out and a butler service.
The chief executive of Africa Albida Tourism Group, which owns the Victoria Falls Safari Lodge, Mr Ross Kennedy, said construction of the new wing was a sign of the recovering tourism sector in the country.
“This investment in our flagship property is a positive indicator that the revival of Zimbabwe tourism is continuing on a steady and upward surge. It will be complemented on a lower tier by our existing, popular self- catering units of Lokuthula lodges and at the Boma — place of eating,” he said.
Mr Kennedy said the future of the country was getting better and better, adding that the coming of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly was a big public relations for the country.
“What matters for the country is that we are hosting the event, politics will always be there and politics will remain politics and what matters is our history as a country and we are optimistic about our future. We have got more plans for next year as a group for our country and the tourism sector. We believe in the future and that is why we invested $3,1 million since November last year,” he said
He said the country must take advantage of the UNWTO general assembly since already the world was now talking about the country and Victoria Falls.
“UNWTO has done us a huge favour in terms of marketing the country. Whatever people might be saying about how we got the assembly, the fact is we have got it.
“In every three words in articles circulating on the internet, Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls are included and so let us work on the upside of it,” said Mr Kennedy.
He said the rehabilitation of roads, upgrading of the water and sewer reticulation services undertaken by the Government were going to leave a legacy for the town.
“So let us embrace the general assembly because already we are leaving in a pre-legacy. New airlines are continuing to arrive and more we hear are in consultations with the relevant authorities, the pre-legacy has started,” he said.
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