Namibia and Adventure!

Namibia is short-listed to host the 2013 Adventure Travel World Summit!  This is great news.  Those who are not aware of this summit or this organization, Google it for background.

If Namibia is successful in winning the opportunity to host this summit, it is GREAT for our toursim exposure.  Tourism in Namibia is viable, vital and vibrant, even before ATWS and this summit hosting opportunity came onto the scene.  But, with this different opening, a new face of Namibia just might be available to a new group of people who may not have looked our way before. 

And, we will not disappoint!  We have LOTS to offer!

Adventure is our middle name in tourism here in Namibia.  Just seeing all that the country offers is an adventure... we sell an EXPERIENCE here, not a destination.  Biking through rough areas where human beings usually don't even venture; quad biking on and around natural sand dunes as high as a sky-scraper in New York, skiing, sand boarding or sand sledding down those same dunes will rock your world!  All kinds of water sports, dolphin cruises, water skiing, paragliding, hiking and camping in areas that are so remote and isolated that you will indeed feel small in this world and other activities. 

I am on an excited and prepared team of people, led by our Director of Tourism, who are receiving and hosting the ATWS judging team when they arrive.  They are coming to Namibia on the 15th of May... in a week!  I will be taking one of the members through Etosha National Park and the properties of the Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) and then going onwards to the Coast of Namibia (Swakopmund and Walvis Bay mostly) where our colleagues there have prepared special experiences for the event (should Namibia win the bid) which they will show to the site judges.

I will take some pictures during the visit and post them (if I master the technical stuff of getting it done while I am on the road working in areas with no internet connection!).

ATWS judging team!!!  Welcome to Namibia... you're going to love it!

Bye for now...

Jackie