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Original Post Date: 2008-05-11 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Nine Southern African countries have pooled their tourism expertise to promote the region as a brand for the 2010 World Cup, with the launch of transfrontier conservation areas at Tourism Indaba 2008 in Durban.
Boundless Southern Africa, the 2010 brand was on Saturday officially launched by Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Rejoice Mabudaffasi.
Mabudafhasi said the vision was for “it to become an authentically Southern African brand where the nine countries are united through a passion for nature, culture and community. Hence, the regional identity and character that define this single brand most completely is the reverence for the deep authentic character of our cultural and natural heritage . . . “
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe will be working together to promote the region as a brand.
The development of the joint brand is based on the motivation that the World Cup would not benefit South Africa alone but the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and Africa as a whole.
Mabudafhasi said the Fifa 2010 Soccer World Cup brought a range of business, investment and tourism opportunities for the region and the continent at large.
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“We have a chance to shape the image of Southern Africa in a way that we may not have again. It is therefore critical for the region and the continent, to formulate and implement strategies that will enable the realisation of these opportunities,” she said.
The indaba, held from May 10 to May 13 at Durban’s Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, is expected to attract more than 13 400 visitors and 1 850 exhibitors.
Chief executive of tour-ism KwaZulu-Natal, Ndabo Khoza, said the indaba 2008 was South African tourism’s principal marketing platform, where the entire sector could meet and map the way forward towards a common goal – selling South Africa effectively to boost economic growth and job creation.