Visa free travel for tourism across borders in a transboundary park

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by KAZA TFCA

Okavango Delta, Botswana © IUCN Alicia Wirz

In a major step to enhance tourism to the world's largest terrestrial transfrontier conservation area, the governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe launched the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) TFCA univisa in November 2014. The KAZA univisa is a common tourist visa for the SADC region, being piloted by Zambia and Zimbabwe for six months. After the pilot period, the univisa is intended to be rolled out to three other KAZA partner countries, namely Angola, Botswana, and Namibia.

Last update: 29 Mar 2019

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Context

Challenges addressed

Ecosystem loss

Lack of access to long-term funding

Scale of implementation

Multi-national

Ecosystems

Tropical deciduous forest

Tropical evergreen forest

Tropical grassland, savanna, shrubland

Theme

Legal & policy frameworks

Tourism

Location

Zambia

West and Central Africa

East and South Africa

Impacts

Eligible tourists are saving time and money because they only need to obtain one visa to visit both countries, resulting in enhanced and shared tourism benefits between the countries sharing the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area.