{"id":37103,"date":"2018-03-12T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-tourism-shines-in-germany-world-leading\/"},"modified":"2018-03-12T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:10:45","slug":"rwanda-tourism-shines-in-germany-world-leading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-tourism-shines-in-germany-world-leading\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda tourism shines in Germany World Leading Travel Trade Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Run from 6th to 11th March, the exhibition was attended by different exhibitors from across the World.<\/p>\n

Countries that participate in the exhibition target to attract tourists from different directions as well as to exhibit tourism opportunities available inside them.<\/p>\n

On the agenda of the ITB-Berlin 2018 also discussed human rights, fighting women and child rights violation as well as protecting biodiversity.<\/p>\n

Rwanda was represented by different tourism services providing companies led by Rwanda Development Board (RDB).<\/p>\n

Rwanda\u2019s tourism team won the first place in Africa category at the exhibition and was followed by Botswana and Marrakech, Morocco.<\/p>\n

Among consideration were preparation of the exhibition stand, different parts of the stand, behaviors of exhibitors and sharing of information among others.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s fare was attended by 1137 exhibitors from across the World and awards were provided in six categories. <\/p>\n

The Tourism Marketing Manager at RDB, Linda Mutesi hailed Rwandan community\u2019s cooperation and the Embassy of Rwanda in German for partnership to help shine in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank participants in the show, the Embassy of Rwanda in German, cultural troops, exhibitors at the stand and the whole Rwandan team,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The ambassador of Rwanda in German, Igor Cesar said that the country should do all that is possible for the country to retain first position.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Rwandans are facilitated by our values. Last year we were on third position and today are leading, we should retain such position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

ITB-Berlin started in 1966 and Rwanda is participating for the 18th time. <\/p>\n

Rwandan companies that participated include,;Thousand Hills Africa; Primate safaris, Go Kigali Tours, ITT, Charleston Travel, Satguru, Wildlife Tours , Amahoro Tours and Rwanda Ecotours.<\/p>\n

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Rwanda\u2019s Volcanoes National Park, has been awarded as the leading sustainable tourism in Africa under the Germany\u2019s World Leading Travel Trade Show (ITB Berlin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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\/37103","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=37103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37103"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37103"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}