{"id":24708,"date":"2026-05-12T06:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/?p=24708"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:08:10","slug":"gaming-authority-hosts-botswana-tourism-organisation-for-strategic-meet-and-greet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/gaming-authority-hosts-botswana-tourism-organisation-for-strategic-meet-and-greet","title":{"rendered":"Gaming Authority hosts Botswana Tourism Organisation for strategic meet-and-greet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The discussions focused on deepening cooperation across key areas including gaming tourism, sports tourism, as well as culture and arts tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Botswana.- The Gaming Authority has hosted senior leadership of the <strong>Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO)<\/strong> in a courtesy meet-and-greet aimed at strengthening collaboration between the two institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Held on Monday, May 11, the engagement was led by acting chief executive officer <strong>Moruntshi Kemorwale<\/strong>. It brought together the Authority\u2019s management team and BTO\u2019s delegation, headed by acting CEO Justice Ofentse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to both organisations, the discussions focused on deepening cooperation across key areas including gaming tourism, sports tourism, as well as culture and arts tourism. The partnership is expected to support the development of integrated visitor experiences while also creating new economic opportunities for local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials also noted plans to align tourism marketing with key national and regional events, alongside efforts to promote upcoming developments in Kasane, including planned hotel-casino projects and dam-based leisure resorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The delegates noted that closer coordination between the two bodies will help position Botswana and the wider region as a competitive destination for diversified tourism offerings, particularly where leisure, entertainment and cultural experiences intersect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both sides expressed commitment to continued collaboration as part of broader efforts to grow the tourism sector and enhance its contribution to economic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/botswana-regulator-highlights-gamblings-role-in-tourism-growth-at-hatab-conference\">Gaming Authority\u2019s participation<\/a> in the Hospitality and Tourism Association of Botswana (HATAB) annual conference held in Maun, where the regulator highlighted the importance of closer collaboration between gaming and tourism stakeholders to drive sector growth.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<div id=\"see-also-container\">\r\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"related-article\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/SIBAYA-JC28-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"related-article__text\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/sun-international-backed-sibaya-community-trust-expands-disability-support'>Sun International-backed Sibaya Community Trust expands disability support<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discussions focused on deepening cooperation across key areas including gaming tourism, sports tourism, as well as culture and arts tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2395,"featured_media":24710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"","focusai_target_profile":"","focusai_suggestions":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[60016,60011],"tags":[72,61020,60190],"class_list":["post-24708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-africa","tag-gaming","tag-sports-tourism","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24712,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24708\/revisions\/24712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}