{"id":266463,"date":"2019-02-20T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=266463"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:02:27","slug":"ethiopia-earns-over-1-billion-tourism-in-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/266463","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia earns over $1 billion from tourism in 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethiopia earned over $1 billion in revenue from tourism between July to December 2018.<\/p>\n

Although the country earned $1.4 billion from tourism, it fell short of its target for that fiscal year. The government had planned to rake in $2.7 billion<\/a> from tourism in 2018,\u00a0 FanaBC reports.<\/p>\n

However, according to Dr. Hirut Kassa, Ethiopia’s Minister of Culture, the country fell short of its goal and was only able to acquire about 53% of its targeted income.<\/p>\n

About 380,376 tourists visited Ethiopia from July to December 2018. The figure could have been higher. However, unrest due to anti-government protests and the declaration of a state of emergency deterred tourists from coming to the country.<\/p>\n

However, things are much better since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office last year. The East African country expects more tourists this year.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, was recently named the new World Capital of Culture and Tourism.<\/a> The European Council on Tourism and Trade (ECTT) gave Addis Ababa the award as the city prepares to mark 550 years as a political center. In 1889, Emperor Menelik II made Addis Ababa the capital of his empire.<\/p>\n

The ECTT President, Professor Dr. Anton Caragea, visited Ethiopia recently and gave Mrs. Sahle Work Zewde the award and certificate making Addis Ababa the World Capital of Culture and Tourism.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia authorities are working to develop the tourism sector of the country. The plan includes investing in infrastructure, product development, and capacity building. Officials recently created a Tourism Transformation Council.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia’s tourism industry had a good spell in 2015\/2016. The country earned about $2 billion from tourism and recorded an influx of over 1 million tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethiopia earned over $1 billion in revenue from tourism between July to December 2018. Although the country earned $1.4 billion from tourism, it fell short of its target for that fiscal year. The government had planned to rake in $2.7 billion from tourism in 2018,\u00a0 FanaBC reports. However, according to Dr. Hirut Kassa, Ethiopia’s Minister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":266505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Addis-Ababa-Lion-of-Judah.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-17jN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266507,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266463\/revisions\/266507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}