MAYOR WANTS TOURISM INDUSTRY GROW

The Livingstone City Council has shut seven bars for failure to stay to stipulated closing time.
The bars had been shut down final night time.
Council Public Kinfolk Supervisor Melvin Mukela has confirmed that an operation used to be performed by a blended crew of reveal police and the local authority and that buying and selling licenses for the seven bars were confiscated.
Mr. Mukela stated the crew also confiscated sound systems from the total seven bars that had been found working after 22 hours.
He explains that the bar householders pays a exquisite of seven-hundred and fifty Kwacha.
Mr. Mukela also stated except for the seven bars, the blended crew closed one illegal makeshift store that used to be also working as a shebeen and the proprietor has since been picked by police.
The Livingstone City Council Public Kinfolk Supervisor has warned that the local authority will proceed conducting such operations till sanity is restored in the tourist capital.
And Livingstone City Deputy Mayor Grandwell Chibamba has urged Zambian operators in the tourism trade to work together in promoting development in the tourism trade.
Mr. Chibamba says tour operators have to discontinue being self-centered but work together by exchanging solutions that can abet give a purchase to the sector.
He used to be talking in Livingstone final evening when he officiated on the closing ceremony of a workshop organized by the Livingstone Tourism Association-LTA for local tour operators.
And LTA Chairperson Rodney Sikumba stated the affiliation will proceed empowering local tour operators with abilities to abet sustainable development in tourism.
Meanwhile a senior educated from PUM Netherlands Dick Lubberhuizen who performed the 2-day practising stated, development in the tourism trade can ultimate be finished if operators interact and work together in direction of the identical targets.