{"id":8111,"date":"2018-03-06T07:05:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T07:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T15:29:35","slug":"tarnished-burundi-image-serious-handicap-to-touristic-sector-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/tarnished-burundi-image-serious-handicap-to-touristic-sector-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarnished Burundi image, serious handicap to touristic sector development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One among other factors that cause Burundi to remain among the poorest countries in the world is the lack of development of the touristic sector. This is mainly caused by the bad image of the country presented by some Burundians.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7913\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7913\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Faustin-Ndikumana-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Faustin Ndikumana: \u201cThe government should seek why people are tarnishing the image of their country and find a solution\u201d\" width=\"421\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Faustin-Ndikumana-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Faustin-Ndikumana-600x459.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Faustin-Ndikumana.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faustin Ndikumana: \u201cThe government should seek why people are tarnishing the image of their country and find a solution\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cCNDD-FDD members, FNL members \u2026all Burundians included are victims of poverty because Burundi does not receive tourists. Everyone has to learn to present the good image of his country\u201d. This was said by the Leonidas Habonimana, Burundi National Tourism-ONT Representative, in a meeting with public and private partners.<\/p>\n<p>Habonimana says Burundi is not in war and tourists can come to visit the country. \u201cThere are other countries which are less peaceful than our country, but they still welcome a lot of tourists,\u201dhe says, adding that tourists who dare come to Burundi despite what is said go back with a positive image of the country. \u201cSome tourists are surprised once they discover how the country is peaceful\u201d, he also says.<\/p>\n<p>For Faustin Ndikumana, Chairman of a local NGO aiming at changing people\u2019s mentality -PARCEM, it is not acceptable to see Burundi being classified among the poorest countries with all the tourism potentials it has. He says everybody should think of the impact of what they say about their country.<\/p>\n<p>He calls on the government members to teach by example and be the good leaders. \u201cThe government is the first institution which is responsible for what happens. It should see why there is a group of people who tarnish the image of the country and try to find the solution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ndikumana reminds that Burundi cannot develop while it is still struggling to develop its touristic sector. \u201cThroughout the world, no country can develop without strengthening relationships. And tourism is part of this good relationship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>With an annual recipe of USD 16million, Burundi is the last country which gains a small amount of money in touristic sector in the East African community. Other countries, that is Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, earn USD 300 million, 800 million, 1 billion and 1.8 billion respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One among other factors that cause Burundi to remain among the poorest countries in the world is the lack of development of the touristic sector. This is mainly caused by the bad image of the country presented by some Burundians. \u201cCNDD-FDD members, FNL members \u2026all Burundians included are victims of poverty because Burundi does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,670],"tags":[113,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8113,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions\/8113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}