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Top Russian tourist wholesaler, Ultra Travel, yesterday said it would bring in a batch of 400 tourists to Zimbabwe in September followed by batches of 50 tourists per week thereafter, after the company's director was fascinated by Zimbabwe's tourist attractions.
It is time we returned to Zimbabwe and published Africa Travel News in Russian. Your wife could be the editor. Instead of them paying for ads, we could have monthly holidays in Bulgaria. What do you think? Are you keen? Page three could appeal to ex-communist voyeurs -The Russian Bare page, full of nubile Shona girls out for a qwuick rouble/
This is fantastic news for Zimbabwe tourism. Perhaps it is the beginning of a renaissance.
Just like many countries have prospered from movie publicity, the growing Russian film industry could help Zimbabwe.
Russian directors could hire large parts of the country to make Second World War movies showing the devastation caused by invading German armies and films would be cheap to make because extras would not be needed to fill food queues.
The Russian elite, the new oligarchs would come rushing to Zimbabwe in their droves and bring in oodles of roubles. They would stuff their faces while everyone around them starved so the movies would be really easy to set in the Victoria Falls.
The prospects are endless. Then Zimbabwe can go for the Chinese market.
Good luck Zimbabwe Tourism.
Hordes of Russian tourists to touch down in Zimbabwe? I think not. The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority is living in cloud cuckoo land. And as for the regime mouthpiece, is the Herald a rusepaper, a musepaper, a pusepaper, or simply a load of old cobblers. My Harare relative recently told me, with the chronic shortage of toilet paper, the Herald is much sought after as Zimbabwe’s favourite anal wipe.
When I googled Ultra Travel in Russia and its director Mikhail Muraview, neither were to be found. Amazing that one of Russia's top international travel organisations does not appear to exist. Interesting too that the Herald stated Muraview (not exactly a Russian sounding name) was Ultra's managing director when that particular corporate title is not common in Russia. This leaves two possible scenarios. Either (1) Muraview took the ZTA for a ride and had a great free tour around Zimbabwe or (2) the entire Herald article was a work of fiction.
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