Zimbabwe recorded a more than 150% year-on-year increase in international arrivals for Q1 2024, indicating that the country’s tourism promotion efforts and major airport upgrades are bearing fruit.
The country welcomed just under 405 000 international visitors between January and March 2024, compared with the 221 000 arrivals for the same period in 2023, according to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat).
Notably, arrivals by air surged by 172% to 134 100, buoyed by the expansions of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport (HRE) and Victoria Falls International Airport (VFA) in 2023. HRE – which upped its annual passenger capacity from 2.5 million to six million as a result of the upgrade – handled 96 658…