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Article: Hotel to boost Zanzibar tourism. (Travel Focus)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
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ZANZIBAR's fledgling tourism industry will get its biggest boost when the new Zanzibar Reef Hotel begins operations in October. The exquisitely designed four-star hotel is in stark contrast to some of the concrete monstrosities built during the island's brief but damaging marriage to the Eastern communist block.
The very name Zanzibar is sufficient to evoke nostalgia for a lost era of romance and adventure. The spice island's Arabic/Indian architecture is on UNESCO's World Heritage list and restoration of some of the more outstanding buildings is being funded by several organisations.
Despite the tremendous tourism potential that Zanzibar offers, the ...