{"id":46414,"date":"2022-08-19T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-generates-us-17-million-from-chogm\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T14:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:48:17","slug":"rwanda-generates-us-17-million-from-chogm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-generates-us-17-million-from-chogm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda generates US$17 million from CHOGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the unveiling of the roadmap for activities aligning with preparations of the annual baby gorilla naming ceremony known as \u2018Kwita Izina\u2019; the Chief Tourism Officer at RDB, Ariella Kageruka has said that the increase in conferences hosted in Rwanda goes hand in hand with higher number of participants.      <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has shaken tourism where revenues dropped by more than 70%. However, current figures give us optimism for recovery. Last year\u2019s revenues increased by 25% compared to the previous year from us$131 million to US$164 million,\u201d she stated.  <\/p>\n<p>Kageruka explained that Rwanda continued to host several events and conferences including Basketball Africa League (BAL), the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) and Ironman competition held recently in Rubavu.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese aforementioned events and others attracted a large number of participants and generated millions to national economy. Particularly, CHOGM generated US$17 million to our economy,\u201d she said.   <\/p>\n<p>The meeting which took place between 20th and 26th June 2022, brought together over 4000 participants.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43745 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2022-08-19_at_12.40_22_pm-6a103.jpg\" alt=\"The Chief Tourism Officer at RDB, Ariella Kageruka has said that the increase in conferences hosted in Rwanda goes hand in hand with higher number of participants.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43746 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2022-08-19_at_12.40_22_pm_1_-a9108.jpg\" alt=\"Some participants of the press conference to unveil the roadmap of activities aligning with Kwita Izina ceremony.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda development Board (RDB) has announced that the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) initiative is accelerating the recovery of the country\u2019s tourism sector that had been hit hard by COVID-19.}<\/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-46414","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\/46414","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=46414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46414"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46414"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}