Malawi develops tourism growth strategy

Malawi has developed a road map on how to boost the tourism industry in line with President Lazarus Chakwera’s agriculture, tourism and mining strategy.

In an interview in Lilongwe on Friday after the close of a tourism full lab, Presidential Delivery Unit (PDU) director Enwell Kadango said the meeting was centred on policies.

“We have discussed at length the tourism policies to level the playing field, infrastructure development and product development so that the sector produces what people can come to see,” he said.

Kadango said the tourism sector is working on improving the aviation industry and attracting more airlines to operate in Malawi for an easy transport system for tourists.

Ministry of Tourism Principal Secretary Chauncy Simwaka said the tourism lab has brought out issues which will see the tourism sector transforming within a short period.

He said the stakeholders tackled a number of bottlenecks which hinder the tourism sector’s growth and came up with solutions which the ministry will start implementing soon.