LONG-SERVING chief executive of the Tourism Business Council of Zimbabwe (TBCZ), Paul Matamisa, has retired after serving the council for more than a decade.
Matamisa, one of the longest-serving personalities in the travel and tourism sector, retired at the end of January.
He retires after a 50-year career in hotels, including appointments in Meikles Hotel, the African Sun group and Cresta Hotels.
He is a past president of the Hospitality Association of Zimbabwe and a longstanding Rotarian.
For a time in the 1990s, he and his wife, Pedia, had their own hospitality group. He underwent formal education and training in Zimbabwe and in Germany.
Until a substantive CEO is appointed, the TBCZ board has appointed operations executive Christopher Sithole as acting CEO.
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“With Mr Matamisa’s retirement comes the end of an era and we thank him for his long, distinguished and dedicated service to the TBCZ and to the sector,” TBCZ president, Clive Chinwada, said.
“We are pleased to note that we are able to call on him for advice and for any tasks we may call upon him to perform in the future, but we wish wish him well in his much-deserved retirement.