{"id":254411,"date":"2019-03-07T20:42:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=254411"},"modified":"2019-03-07T21:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T19:48:20","slug":"namibia-wins-big-at-patwa-awards-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=254411","title":{"rendered":"Namibia wins big at PATWA Awards in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 864 \/ 480;\" width=\"864\" controls src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Namibia-wins-big-at-PATWA-Awards-in-Germany.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption> <br>Video: Namibia\u2019s Minister of Environment and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta receiving a much coveted international tourism award in Berlin.<br>Material: Contributed <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eba Kandovazu\u00a0<br \/><br \/>FLYING the flag high for Namibia and for Africa in general, the country\u2019s efforts to develop and market it as a premium tourism destination over many years have not gone unnoticed.<br \/>Namibia was today awarded the Best Destination Safari and Wildlife at the Pacific Areas Travel Writers Association (PATWA) Awards.<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>The awards ceremony was held in Berlin, Germany.<br \/>Additionally, Mr. Pohamba Shifeta was just awarded Tourism Minister of the year in the emerging destination category.\u00a0<br \/>In his acceptance speech, Shifeta expressed gratitude to PATWA for recognising Namibia&#8217;s efforts in conservation for tourism development.\u00a0<br \/>&#8220;This will encourage us as the authority and our stakeholders to do more to stop the poaching of high value species like our elephants and rhinos,&#8221; he said in his acceptance address.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Eba Kandovazu\u00a0 FLYING the flag high for Namibia and for Africa in general, the country\u2019s efforts to develop and market it as a premium tourism destination over many years have not gone unnoticed.Namibia was today awarded the Best Destination Safari and Wildlife at the Pacific Areas Travel Writers Association (PATWA) Awards.The awards ceremony was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":254432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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