{"id":3688,"date":"2026-04-17T19:51:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:51:50","slug":"african-parks-commended-for-promoting-tourism-sikumba-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"AFRICAN PARKS COMMENDED FOR PROMOTING TOURISM-SIKUMBA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government has commended African Parks on its consistent and transformative<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>conservation and tourism development that has led to sustainable resource utilisation and reduced dependency on unsustainable practices.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a stakeholder engagement in Lusaka, Minister of Tourism Rodney Sikumba, said that African Parks&#8217; continued investment in tourism, has strengthened the sector, while allowing the government to channel its resources to social protection services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrican Parks committed to investing $20 million over a 20-year period impressively, within just five years, over $34 million has already been invested &#8211; surpassing the initial commitment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sikumba added that\u00a0government is equally committed to addressing infrastructure gaps in road and air transport in order to unlock the full potential of the northern and southern tourism circuits.<\/p>\n<p>African Parks Chief Operating Officer, Charles Wells recognised that Zambia has demonstrated prudent leadership by setting aside a substantial proportion of its land for conservation through national parks, game management areas, forest reserves and protected wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Barotse Royal Establishment representative Induna Mundandwe who is also one of the area chiefs in Liuwa, recognised that the coming of African Parks in the area has promoted community involvement in tourism through establishment of campsites for tourists who go to visit the Liuwa Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has commended African Parks on its consistent and transformative\u00a0conservation and tourism development that has led to sustainable resource utilisation and reduced dependency on unsustainable practices. Speaking during a stakeholder engagement in Lusaka, Minister of Tourism Rodney Sikumba, said that African Parks&#8217; continued investment in tourism, has strengthened the sector, while allowing the government to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[26,139,25],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnewsright","tag-ineverycornerofzambia","tag-ministryoftourism","tag-zanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}