{"id":5935,"date":"2013-02-17T06:06:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T06:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/visitors-to-rwanda-increased-by-22-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2013-02-17T06:05:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T06:05:39","slug":"visitors-to-rwanda-increased-by-22-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/visitors-to-rwanda-increased-by-22-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors to Rwanda Increased by 22% in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{In 2012, Rwanda has welcomed 1,075,829 visitors having shifted from the 2011 number which was 908,001 visitors.}}<\/p>\n<p>This represents an increase of 22%.<\/p>\n<p>Rica Rwigamba, in charge of Tourism at Rwanda Development Board (RDB), attributes the increase of visitors to the fact that Rwanda is a safe country.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the department of Tourism is in the process of continuously reinforcing product diversification by focusing on the quality of services in this sector.<\/p>\n<p>According to Claire Akamanzi, CEO of Rwanda Development Board, tourism is an important sector of the national economy. <\/p>\n<p>It makes a valuable contribution to national income and the Vision 2020 program, notably by creating jobs and attracting investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{In 2012, Rwanda has welcomed 1,075,829 visitors having shifted from the 2011 number which was 908,001 visitors.}} This represents an increase of 22%. Rica Rwigamba, in charge of Tourism at Rwanda Development Board (RDB), attributes the increase of visitors to the fact that Rwanda is a safe country. She added that the department of Tourism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-5935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire"],"bylines":[{"id":474,"name":"Dusabemungu Ange de la Victoire","slug":"dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":474,"name":"Dusabemungu Ange de la Victoire","slug":"dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}