MINISTRY of Tourism Permanent Secretary Evans Muhanga says government-owned hotels are still substandard and cannot accommodate the Africa Union delegation set to attend the summit later this year. Zambia is scheduled to host the 4th Africa Union Mid-Year Coordinating meeting slated for July 14 to 17, 2022. In an interview, Tuesday, Muhanga said some state-owned hotels such as Fairview hotel among others were below the prescribed standard to accommodate the delegation. He added that privately-owned hotels were set to scoop the business during that period as they had higher and better standards than the government-owned hotels. “As you are aware, what happened was that the protocols that we have, the AU from Ethiopia itself at headquarters, they had sent a...

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