{"id":274687,"date":"2019-05-03T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZWh0dHA6Ly9hZGRpc3N0YW5kYXJkLmNvbS9vcGVkLW1pc2xlYWRpbmctbnVtYmVycy1pbXByb3ZpbmctdGhlLXJlcG9ydGluZy1vZi1ldGhpb3BpYXMtdG91cmlzbS1zZWN0b3Iv0gEiaHR0cDovL2FkZGlzc3RhbmRhcmQuY29tL29wZWQvYW1wLw?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:34:15","slug":"addis-standard-op-ed-ethiopias-tourism-numbers-needed-honest-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274687","title":{"rendered":"Addis Standard op-ed: Ethiopia\u2019s tourism numbers needed honest counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 3 May 2019 David Desta argued in Addis Standard that local media had repeated tourist arrival figures without enough scrutiny, and that Ethiopia\u2019s tourism sector needed cleaner reporting if policy and investment talk were to mean anything.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-353196\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Addis Standard op-ed: Ethiopia\u2019s tourism numbers needed honest counting\" \/>\n<p>Tourism boasts are a favorite reform-era prop. When arrival stats are fuzzy, hotels, parks, and communities get sold a fantasy while infrastructure and security realities decide whether visitors return.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government liked soft-power images of Lalibela and Danakil. Honest numbers are less glamorous and more useful than ministerial optimism.<\/p>\n<p>As business\/tourism reference, the op-ed remains a small governance lesson: count carefully, or the sector becomes another brochure economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/addisstandard.com\/oped-misleading-numbers-improving-the-reporting-of-ethiopias-tourism-sector\/\">Addis Standard<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op:Ed: Misleading numbers: Improving the reporting of Ethiopia\u2019s tourism Sector\ufeff&nbsp;&nbsp;addisstandard.comDavid Desta, for Addis Standard. Addis Abeba, May 03\/2019 \u2013 Earlier this month, several local media organizations reported that tourists travel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":353196,"comment_status":"closed","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-274687","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\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=788%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19sr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274687","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602518,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274687\/revisions\/602518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}