STEVE INSKEEP, host: By the way, Zimbabwe is trying to recapture its share of the tourism industry. Yesterday, it opened an international tourism fair to promote resorts that have largely been deserted under the rule of President Robert Mugabe. Tourism income has dropped more than 70 percent in the past six years.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority blames the decline on bad publicity from the West. The United States, Britain, and other nations oppose Mugabe's policies, including his controversial seizures of white-owned farms for distribution to landless blacks.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: You're listening to MORNING EDITION from NPR News.
Zimbabwe is trying to recapture its share of the tourism industry. Thursday, it opened an international tourism fair to promote resorts that have largely been deserted under the rule of President Robert Mugabe. Tourism income has dropped more than 70 percent in the past six years, to $98 million.