{"id":50080,"date":"2017-07-11T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T09:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=50080"},"modified":"2017-07-11T11:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T09:31:49","slug":"firm-tips-on-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/07\/11\/firm-tips-on-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm tips on tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Players in the hospitality industry are being tipped to tighten security in tourist facilities to improve revenue the country gets from the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Founder of Put Foot Rally, Darny Hillmouse, made the call at Livingstonia Beach in Salima over the weekend during a meeting that attracted various stakeholders in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>The Put Foot Rally is a gathering of philanthropists from across the globe touring Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>They travel across the nations in 18 days bringing hope to vulnerable children.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the tourism industry in the country, when compared to the other countries, Hillmouse said Malawi is doing fairly well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rally is a traditional camping budget and when we compare what players in the hospitality industry in Malawi are offering to other countries, there is not much difference,\u201d Hillmouse said.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, pointed out the need to intensify security measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, for an event organiser like myself, your participants\u2019 safety comes first and that, is why we have been coming to Livingstonia Beach for the past seven years,\u201d Hillmouse said.<\/p>\n<p>According to management of Sunbird Livingstonia, the rally will boost their returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players in the hospitality industry are being tipped to tighten security in tourist facilities to improve revenue the country gets from the sector. Founder of Put Foot Rally, Darny Hillmouse, made the call at Livingstonia Beach in Salima over the weekend during a meeting that attracted various stakeholders in the industry. The Put Foot Rally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50081,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50080\/revisions\/50081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}