{"id":44183,"date":"2021-08-18T19:04:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-extends-partnership-with-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2021-08-21T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T10:18:09","slug":"rwanda-extends-partnership-with-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-extends-partnership-with-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda extends partnership with Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a message released via Twitter handle today, the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) has shade light on the partnership extension demystifying reportedly misleading reports about the deal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a successful start to the 3-year partnership with Arsenal Football Club, the Rwanda Development Board decided in 2019 to renew the partnership, which was then announced on 14 May 2021, during the launch of the club\u2019s 2021\/22 away kit,\u201d reads part of the message.  <\/p>\n<p>Arsenal and RDB initially teamed up back in 2018 with Visit Rwanda becoming the Gunners\u2019 official tourism partner, as well as the club\u2019s first sleeve sponsor. <\/p>\n<p>That contract was reportedly worth US$30 million over three years.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the first year of the partnership, Rwanda\u2019s tourism revenue increased by 17% to US$498 million in 2019 from US$425 million in 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Leisure tourists from Europe increased by 22% and by 17% from the UK.  <\/p>\n<p>According to RDB, the renewed partnership will build on the gains made over the last 3 years and \u2018contribute towards Rwanda\u2019s economic recovery strategy following the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the tourism sector\u2019.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe partnership will also continue to leverage Arsenal\u2019s expertise to develop football locally in Rwanda, with a focus on improving the quality of coaching at the grassroots level for girls and boys,\u201d adds the tweet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39261 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gettyimages-94f2-d7405.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda has extended partnership with Arsenal Football Club whereby the \u2018Visit Rwanda\u2019 logo will continue to feature on the Premier League club\u2019s left sleeve.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda has extended partnership with Arsenal Football Club whereby the \u2018Visit Rwanda\u2019 logo will continue to feature on the Premier League club\u2019s left sleeve.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/44183","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44183"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44183"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}