Austerity Measures To Bite Tourism Industry

A Senior Tourism and Hospitality lecturer at Mzuzu University Charles Mhango has weighed in on new austerity measures by Secretary to the Office of President and Cabinet Colleen Zamba to ban Lakeshore conferences and meetings saying that the move is going to badly affect the country’s tourism sector.

Mhango says that the measures were also put in place between 2009-2010 during former president late Bingu Wa Mutharika’s time but were overturned after operators from the Lakeshore districts complained.        

Mhango says that the Lakeshore meetings are the main drivers of tourism sector apparently with government being the biggest consumer.

He says “The ban is not only going to affect the tourism sector, but it will also  affect several other businesses that depend on tourism like suppliers of farm products, chemicals,”