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Univisa relaunched for Zimbabwe and Zambia

Source: Tourism Update, 06/01/2017

Zimbabwe Minister of Home Affairs, Ignatious Chombo, signed the KAZA
visa Memorandum of Understanding in Livingstone on December 21.

The KAZA univisa for Zambia and Zimbabwe was relaunched at an event at
the David Livingstone Safari Lodge on December 21, 2016. The visa aims
to promote tourism and facilitate free, easy movement of tourists
across the countriesâ€™ borders.

The univisa was first launched in a pilot programme between November
2014 and December 2015 with more than 47 000 visitors benefiting from
the arrangement during the period.

The univisa costs $50 and is valid for up to 30 days as long as
visitors remain within Zambia and Zimbabwe. It also covers those who
visit Botswana for day trips through the Kazungula borders.

The univisa is available on arrival at Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula
International Airport, Victoria Falls Land Border in Livingstone,
Kazungula Land Border, Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, Victoria
Falls International Airport, and Harare International Airport.

Electronic applications may be accepted at a later date.

Citizens of 40 countries (those who are eligible to receive visas on
arrival in both Zambia and Zimbabwe) are eligible.

â€œThe original trial year was a major success and was embraced and
supported by travel agents and tour operators across the world,â€ said
Ross Kennedy, Chief Executive of Africa Albida Tourism.

Kennedy said the new visa regime was an early step in exploring and
developing the Kavango-Zambezi (Kaza) Transfrontier Conservation Area
as a tourism zone, with Victoria Falls as its hub.

It is anticipated that the KAZA univisa will be extended to Angola,
Botswana and Namibia in future, however Botswanaâ€™s Minister of
Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, Tshekedi Khama has previously said
that Botswana was not keen to participate in the programme.

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