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Botswana to Allow Chartered Flights to Boost Tourism Sector

Mqondisi Dube

   GABORONE, BOTSWANA - Botswana says it will allow chartered flights to
   the country's prime tourist destinations starting November 1, in an
   attempt to boost a sector that has lost hundreds of millions of dollars
   since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

   Flights will be allowed to land at two airports in Maun and Kasane, two
   prime tourist resorts, in the vicinity of the vast Okavango Delta.

   Botswana's minister of environment, natural resources conservation and
   tourism, Philda Kereng, said in a statement that the government is
   finalizing rules to facilitate the arrival of tourists.

   These will include protocols to contain the spread of COVID-19, she
   said.

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