Sidney Hanstein, Chairperson of Team Namibia, and Charmaine Matheus, Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) Head of Marketing, on behalf of the NTB recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which, in essence, will lead to greater co-operation and teamwork between the two entities.
Hanstein expressed his excitement about the MoU and said that Team Namibia was looking forward to working with the NTB. “Domestic travel is crucial to the domestic economy since it feeds money back into the local economy. This improves citizens’ quality of life and increases the local government’s financial resources, which can be used to upgrade the community’s facilities and infrastructure. Tourism offers great opportunities for emerging economies and developing countries such as Namibia. It creates jobs, strengthens the local economy, contributes to local infrastructure development and can help to conserve the natural environment and cultural assets and traditions, and to reduce poverty and inequality. We can promote our local tourism industry by buying from and supporting it.”