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Table 8.9
Local financial impacts of tour operators ('000s), KAZA region, 2004
Total (US$)
Local wages
1847
Local expenditure
2769
Profit retained locally
674
Tourism activity in the Kavango-Zambezi TFCA
In 2004, surveyed accommodation establishments in the KAZA region had the
capacity to house 8312 guests each night. It is estimated that just over 318,640
guests spent 1 or more nights in these accommodation enterprises, and 782,200
bednights were sold in the region during 2004, while approximately 314,200
guests were taken on a tour by operators in that year.
Table 8.10 shows details of enterprise turnover and employment according to
business ownership type, illustrating the dominance in the region of a very small
number of corporately owned enterprises, which earned approximately 50 per
cent of total tourism enterprise revenue generated in the KAZA TFCA region.
Table 8.10
Share of tourism market by ownership type, KAZA region, 2004
n = 162
Total operations (%)
Turnover (%)
Employment (%)
Private
88
49
58
Communal
3
0
0
State/Government
—
—
—
Corporate
7
50
40
Community/Private Joint venture
—
—
—
Other
2
1
2
Information regarding the residence and ethnicity of business owner(s) was also
collected (Table 8.11), and illustrates the large number of enterprises that gener-
ate very small financial returns for their owners - particularly black enterprise
owners.
The tourism industry generated US$100.2 million in 2004; $US89.4 million
in the accommodation sector, and US$10.8 million by tour operators. Notable
from Table 8.12 is the fact that although the number of enterprises in Victoria
Falls is small, they generate significant revenues. The Caprivi and Upper Zambezi
regions contribute only a small proportion to the total revenue generated in the
KAZA region, however, these enterprises are important local revenue generators,
with few other economic activities (aside from subsistence farming) present in the
regions.
In 2004, 5529 people were employed in the tourism industry in the KAZA
region. Of these, 5204 were local employees, 689 of them in part-time jobs. Table
8.13 shows the breakdown by region by sector.
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