Travel Weekly Blog

I've read a couple of pieces that touch on this recently, so putting them into one post with a feature we ran late last year...

If you're seen any other good ones, drop them in the comments and I'll add to the post.

• Zimbabwe needs your tourist dollars [The Daily Traveler]
  "I've never felt so good about spending money as I did in Zimbabwe, and never come home wanting so much to send everyone I know to the place I just visited."
  
• Into the wild: a lifeline for the black rhinos of Zimbabwe [Times]
  "If Zimbabwe does achieve sanity and stability again, the first and most important step towards balance, foreign exchange and international acceptability will be through the tourist trade. Tourists come to Zimbabwe -- or they used to -- to see wildlife."

...and one from Travel Weekly...

• Zimbabwe: Is it time for the travel industry to return?
  "Two comments ring true. First, that refusing to visit hurts not Mugabe or his cronies, but the half a million people who used to be employed by the country's tourism industry. Secondly, that the real attraction of Zimbabwe is its people."