Leisure Visitors Up 25 Percent
Rwanda tourism receipts improve
Ahead of the annual celebrations of the gorilla naming "Kwita Izina" later this week, figures have been released by the Rwanda Development Board-Tourism and Conservation, speaking of a 5 percent increase in revenues during the first quarter of 2010 compared to last year of 2009.
The improved figures are attributed to sustained marketing of Rwanda as a destination and the introduction of new products for the tourism industry on one side and the added visitors coming to the "land of a thousand hills" for conferences and meetings, now that new facilities are available for MICE organizers.
Leisure visitors to Rwanda compared to last year went up by about 25 percent, while overall arrivals increased by 8 percent for the first quarter of 2010. Sources from Kigali generally felt that 2010 could become another record setting year.
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The past few months have provided plenty of evidence that the extremist Tutsis in power today in Rwanda have no respect whatsoever for human rights. Their latest affront on human rights being the jailing of an American lawyer Peter Erlinder simply because he was a good defense lawyer. Now that the world is starting to see the true colors of the extremist Tutsis in power in Rwandan, I think that the leisure visitor numbers will be going down next year.
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