{"id":35853,"date":"2017-09-19T08:10:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T08:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/akagera-national-park-earned-200-000-in-july\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T08:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T08:09:51","slug":"akagera-national-park-earned-200-000-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/akagera-national-park-earned-200-000-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Akagera National Park earned $200,000 in July"},"content":{"rendered":"

Currently, Akagera has 18 rhinos and 19 lions.<\/p>\n

Speaking to IGIHE Sarah Hall, the tourism and marketing manager at Akagera National Park said that in July the park earned much money than ever before.<\/p>\n

\u201cJuly 2017 had a big number of tourists compared to other months. It is the month where we earned much money above $200,000 a big amount above what was earned in the entire 2010,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Sarah said that in July 2017, the park was visited by 4,978 tourists and 3,879 in August,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Under the ongoing campaign to sensitise Rwandans to embrace local tourism through \u2018Tembera u Rwanda\u2019 Sarah said that a half of tourists in the park during July and August were Rwandans. <\/p>\n

In the year 2017, Rwanda is targeting to earn $440 million from tourism. <\/p>\n

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Akagera National Park Management has said that they generated a total of $200,000 (about Rwf169 million) in July, a substantial amount in the park\u2019s history. The growth in the park\u2019s income is attributed to the recent re-introduction of lions and black rhinos in the park, making a complete availability of the big five; lions, elephants, buffalos, leopards and rhinos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[133],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-main-featured-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35853"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35853"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}