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Rwanda Tourism Top Earner with record $80 million in the just six months.

By August 25, 2008Rwanda

Rwanda Tourism Top Earner with record $80 million in the just six months.

The Office of Rwanda Tourism and National Parks,the agency responsible for tourism promotion and improvement of revenue has annouced the figure of 80 million, much more than the targeted 68 million planned for the entire year.

Rosette Rugamba, the director-general of Rwanda Office of Tourism and National Parks said. “In collaboration with the private sector, there are already nine new hotel projects with 416 rooms that will be operational by the end of 2008. Worth noting is that there were only 651 rooms available in 2003,” she added that “Since 2005 to date, 58 community projects worth 515 million french franks (about $1.03 million) have been funded under the revenue sharing policy where 5 per cent the tourism revenues are ploughed back into community.”

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