Since the Land Reform programme in 2000, tourism in Zimbabwe has steadily declined. After rising during the 1990s, with 1.4 million tourists in 1999, industry figures described a 75% fall in visitors to Zimbabwe in by December 2000, with less than 20% of hotel rooms occupied. This has had a huge impact on the Zimbabwean economy, where thousands of jobs were lost due to companies closing down or simply being unable to pay staff wages.
But with the New inclusive government companies are realizing an increase in business and the economy has started to grow after over 10 years of stunted growth. Leading the way is tourism and as a result blogs like this on have started to encourage that growth