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SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
a)
co-operating in facilitating travel by air, land or water and to increase and improve
transport and communication facilities within the region;
b)
having visa requirements for regional tourists who wish to enter their territory as
visitors, abolished, in furtherance of existing and future SADC Protocols;
c)
having a tourism univisa which will facilitate movement of international tourists in
the region in order to increase the market share and revenue of the region in world
tourism on the basis of arrangements to be negotiated and agreed upon by Member
States;
d)
removing obstacles to the development of tourism, travel and other impediments
and to harmonise legislation relating thereto;
e)
providing appropriate facilities related to the travel of disabled and handicapped
persons and senior citizens.
2.
Any form of transportation used by visitors and which is registered in the territory of a
Member State shall be allowed entry in terms of the relevant provisions of the SADC
Protocol on Transport, Communications and Meteorology.
3.
Member States shall harmonise tourist registration documents in their respective countries
such as visa application forms, entry - exit forms, and other statistical documents.
ARTICLE 6
TOURISM TRAINING AND EDUCATION
1.
Member States shall endeavour to evolve a common education policy with regard to
imparting tourism education in schools and include tourism and environmental-related
issues in subjects presently taught at school.
2.
Member States shall endeavour to co-ordinate and harmonise training at tourism training institutions and develop exchange programmes through the public and private
sectors and mobilise support for training institutions in the Region.
3.
Member States shall endeavour to harmonise standards of training in their countries and
ensure that tourism training institutions in different parts of the Region are complementary to one another in the training courses.
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Protocol on the Development of Tourism