Savanna Heritage & Tourism Consultancy (Savanna HTC) is a multidisciplinary consulting firm providing professional advisory and technical services in cultural heritage management, environmental management, sustainable tourism development, and related research and capacity-building services. The firm operates across both the public and private sectors and is headquartered in Harare, Zimbabwe, with operational reach across Southern Africa and the wider African region.
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We are committed to shaping the future of heritage and tourism with sustainable practices and innovative solutions.
Our team is made up of passionate professionals committed to advancing heritage and tourism in Zimbabwe and beyond.
Heritage & Tourism Development Consultant
Founder and Director of Savanna Heritage and Tourism Consultancy
Bright Mutyandaedza is an archaeologist and cultural heritage management specialist with extensive experience in heritage and tourism development across Southern Africa. He works as a heritage and tourism development consultant with Savanna Heritage & Tourism Consultancy, providing technical advisory and project management services to public institutions, development agencies, NGOs, and private sector clients.
His professional expertise spans World Heritage Site management planning, heritage and environmental impact assessments, conservation planning, archaeological and heritage tourism development, visitor management planning, museum and archival administration, and heritage policy formulation. Bright has led and contributed to multidisciplinary projects involving feasibility studies, management plans, and stakeholder engagement processes at local, national, and international levels.
He has worked on major internationally funded heritage and tourism initiatives, including the Great Zimbabwe World Heritage Site Tourism and Development Feasibility Studies, implemented in collaboration with international consulting firms from Europe. His consultancy work emphasises community participation, sustainability, and the integration of indigenous knowledge systems into heritage and tourism development frameworks.
Bright holds a Master of Arts in Archaeology and an Honours degree in Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Management, and Museum Studies from Midlands State University, Zimbabwe, and is a PhD candidate specialising in archaeology and agroecology. In addition to consultancy work, he serves as an archival and collections consultant for The Salvation Army’s Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Madagascar Territory Heritage Resource Centre and as a heritage and environmental advisor to Manyame Conservation Trust.
Cultural Heritage Management Practitioner & Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Consultant & Project Manager in Heritage & Tourism
Ms. Thamary Mukuya holds a MA in Archaeology from the University of Zimbabwe and an Honours Degree in Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Museum Studies from Midlands State University. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)®.
Thamary has extensive experience as a Consultant on Heritage, Archaeological, and Tourism projects. She has worked on World Heritage Site development, including conservation management plans and the nomination of sites for UNESCO inscription.
Her research interests include cultural heritage documentation, preservation, and heritage tourism development. She is a member of PMI, ASAPA, and ZAPARD.
Thamary has worked on projects such as the Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape and various management plans for South African and international heritage sites. Recently, she has worked on the Cango Caves Conservation Management Plan and the Robben Island Integrated Management Plan.
Archaeologist & PhD Candidate
Expert in Faunal Analysis & Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions
Humphrey Nyambiya is an archaeologist and PhD candidate with a focus on faunal analysis, paleoenvironmental reconstructions using fauna, and cultural heritage management. He holds a BA Hons in Archaeology from the University of Zimbabwe (2018) and an MPhil in Archaeology from the University of Cape Town (2021).
His research focuses on understanding human-animal relationships, subsistence strategies, exploitation behaviours, and past environments from Stone Age sites in South Africa.
Humphrey is a member of the International Council for Archaeozoologists (ICAZ) and the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA).
site management planning, conservation strategies, and heritage impact assessments.
supporting sustainable site use and risk mitigation
Technical, financial, social, and environmental assessments
Capacity strengthening and implementation support
Environmental Management and Conservation Planning, aligned with national legislation and World Bank environmental and social safeguard requirements
Product development, destination planning, and value-chain analysis Interpretation, Exhibition Design, and Visitor Experience Planning, with emphasis on education, accessibility, and audience engagemen
Nomination dossiers, management frameworks, monitoring systems, and periodic reporting.
A detailed framework for the development of the site, along with, addressing the challenges affecting improvements in the economy, social livelihood and environment. The service was aimed at implementing environmental and social impacts management, capacity building, tourism promotion, and economic development, and governance, and economic & cultural empowerment of the local communities.
Savanna Heritage Institute, a division of Savanna Heritage & Tourism Consultancy has launched a Community development program that focuses on indigenous cultural heritage, African tradition and cultural economics. Savanna Heritage Institute aims to advance and promote African pride through appreciation of cultural and natural heritage, Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
Serima Mission prides itself as a home of famous school of African art and early forms of practical schools in the then Rhodesia. The architectural beauty of the church and the art is beautiful beyond measure. As part of our drive to revive underperforming sites, resorts, and destinations to promote tourism in Zimbabwe, we adopt and develop destinations to maximise their potential by rebranding the site so that their proper value will make the site attract the necessary attention in terms of urban tourism these being Recognition, Conservation, Allocation of resources (infrastructure) and Tourist Flows.
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