Wisdom Mudarikiri Profile

Business Address:                        No 50 Edson Crescent Granite, Harare

Cell                                                0772249684

Email                                             mudarikiri@index.co.zw 

CAREER PROFILE

Omega Ray Securities Ltd
Owner  and Cooperate strategy Consultant 

Harambe Holdings (2004 – January 2012) 
 General  Manager  Glendale Spring mineral water
promoted to senior general manager  -Intertec Food
promoted to executive director -Global Marketing  and Trading
promoted to group marketing director  for  5 company SBUs 
promoted executive director for Super Bake and Mitchel bakeries 

Shaft Holdings (2000 -2003)
General manager operations
promoted to managing director
promoted to chief operating officer for the 3 company SBUs 

Ministry of Education, Sports Arts and Culture (1987-1999)
Science teacher
ACADEMIC  QUALIFICATIONS
Master of Science in Strategic Management( University of Derby-UK)
MBA(ZOU)
Bed(Administration, Planning and Policy Studies(UZ)
Certificate in Marketing (LCCI)
Certificate in Education (Science)  UZ 
Personal Details
Date of  Birth     :  05 October 1956
Nationality         :   Zimbabwean
Languages          :  English , Shona  and  Ndebele
Religion              :  Christianity

Festive season occupancies average 50% in Zimbabwe

Gamma Mudarikiri

RESORT hotel occupancies averaged 50,2% over the 15-day period to January 3 while national hotel occupancies were at 38%, weighed down by the low performance of city hotels, according to figures released by the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA). Victoria Falls had the highest average of 77%, with about 15 000 visitors in the resort town. Hospitality Association of Zimbabwe president Tich Hwingwiri said the Christmas and New Year holidays were eventful and brought brisk business to the industry. Resort hotels and lodges were fully booked during the period, he said. The highest occupancy average was 99% on New Year’s Eve. According to Hwingwiri, most of the hotel operators in Victoria Falls attributed the growth in occupancy numbers to the annual Falls Fest, an arts festival, and other promotional packages put in place by operators and bus companies. ZTA CEO Karikoga Kaseke said the tourism sector was coming from a low base where there was negative perception about Zimbabwe, but the situation had improved owing to aggressive marketing by players in the tourism sector. “We are however not happy about city hotels’ performance, (over the festive season) which failed to beat the forecast of 45% occupancy,” Kaseke said. City Hotel occupancies over the period were at 28%. However, during the course of the year, the occupancies of city hotels improved owing to Copac Outreach programmes. Rainbow Tourism Group occupancies were at 33%, with FD Paschal Changunda saying the period had good occupancies for the resort hotels, which were mostly fully occupied for the period. He said the performance of the city hotels, which were generally quiet during the festive season, broadly diluted overall occupancy rates for the group. Of the occupancies, Changunda said, 70% were local while 30% were foreign visitors.

Tourisim arrivals in Zimbabwe up by 10%

Gamma Mudarikiri
ZIMBABWE recorded a 10% average rise in foreign tourist arrivals between
2009 and the first half 2011, driven by a stability in the political
environment and massive marketing campaigns branding Zimbabwe a safe tourist
destination.
According to a report compiled by the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA), the
country has since dollarisation registered growth in foreign tourist
arrivals.
Foreign tourist arrivals from 2009 to the first half of 2011 totalled 4 913
731. Of these arrivals, Africa accounted for 84%. In 2009 there was a 3%
increase in arrivals on average. In 2010 arrivals grew 11% while they grew
by 16% in 2011.
The first half of 2011 recorded 657 302 tourist arrivals, representing a 16%
increase from the 568 706 recorded in 2010.
Arrivals from Africa rose to 566 913, an increase of 11% from the 510 310
recorded in the same period in 2010. South Africa remained the leading
contributor of arrivals from Africa, accounting for 246 889 visitors in H1
2011. However, this was a 33% decrease from the 367 538 recorded over the
same period in 2010. The highest increase in arrivals to Zimbabwe was by
Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, with the rise being attributed to increased
trade between those countries and Zimbabwe.
In the first half of 2011, overseas visitors accounted for 14% of arrivals
in Zimbabwe, with nearly two fifths of those coming from Europe.
Actual arrivals from Europe in the first half of 2011 were up 51% to 34
713, from 23 030 recorded in the same period in 2010. Of these arrivals 24
192 were from Britain and Ireland.
The USA remained a major overseas source market, recording 17 351 in the
first half of 2011, up 141% from the same period in 2010.
The ZTA attributes the decrease in Europe’s market share of vistors to the
financial crisis sparked by the eurozone debt. The resultant illiquid
economy in Europe and high loss of jobs has affected tourist arrivals from
the region.
Tourist arrivals from Asia in the first half of 2011 increased to 21 959,
rising by 104 % from 10 771 recorded in the same period in 2010. China was
the major source of the Asian market’s share of arrivals in Zimbabwe,
registering a total of 9 460 arrivals in H1 2011, up by 213% from 3 023
arrivals recorded in the same period in 2010.
In the first half of 2011, arrivals from Mexico declined by 78% to 264 from
the 1220 recorded in the same period in 2010.
Where arrivals have declined between 2010 and 2011, this has been partly
been attributed to the end of the soccer World Cup held in South Africa in
2010. During 2010 Zimbabwe had recorded an 11% increase in tourist arrivals
compared to the previous year (2009), four percentage points above global
arrivals for that year and five percentage points above regional arrivals.
Of the 2 239 165 arrivals received by Zimbabwe in 2010, Africa contributed
87%, followed by Europe (6%), the Americas (3%) and Asia (2%).