{"id":2596,"date":"2022-03-08T02:42:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T02:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bannermanenergy.com\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2022-03-08T03:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T03:09:45","slug":"hospitality-association-of-namibia-congress-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bannermanenergy.com\/hospitality-association-of-namibia-congress-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitality Association of Namibia Congress 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Hospitality Association of Namibia, Congress 2022 took place on 18 February 2022 in the ruins of the old diamond mining town, Kolmanskop near L\u00fcderitz in the south of Namibia. <\/h5>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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A little bit of history on the town of L\u00fcderitz \u2013 The German railway supervisor, Mr. August Stauch, asked his workers (mostly coloured people from the Norther Cape in South Africa) to look out for any stones that may look interesting. One of the workers Mr. Zacharias Lawala picked up a glittering stone which was later found out to be the first diamond and then the diamond rush began.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Town of L\u00fcderitz<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The town of Kolmanskop was the \u2018mining town\u2019 during this diamond rush. Once the diamonds were mined near the area and bigger fields were discovered 100km south, the town of Kolmanskop became a \u2018ghost town\u2019. It is now a tourist attraction and part of a newly declared national park called Tsau Khaeb (meaning \u2013 \u2018\u2019soft sand\u2019\u2019 in the local Nama language). The area was a restricted area (in German \u2013 Sperrgebiet) for over 100 years and is now open for tourism \u2013 guided tours only; not self drive tourists.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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