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Article: The best of times, the worst of times: the contrasting tourism fortunes of Zambia and Zimbabwe, on either side of the spectacular Victoria Falls, could not be starker. Zimbabwe's loss has become Zambia's boon. Milan Vesely reports.(Tourism)
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- African Business
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- August 1, 2004
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The tourist trade, a major source of foreign exchange in some African countries is now becoming nothing but a distant memory in others. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Zambia and Zimbabwe--two nations on opposite sides of one of the 'Seven Wonders of the World', the majestic Victoria Falls.
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But while Livingston town on the Zambian side is bursting with dollar-spending foreign visitors crammed into newly-built four-star hotels and river-edge lodges, Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls town on the other side is almost a ghost town. The erratic policies of President Robert Mugabe are driving away all but the hardiest of foreign visitors.
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