Beribboned funeral wreaths lean against the wall of the green-painted tourism office in central Mutare, Zimbabwe's fourth-largest city.
The flower sellers are doing a brisk business, but there are no tourists inside the building.
Zimbabwe's tourism industry, once the southern African country's second-biggest foreign-currency earner after tobacco, died a slow death after the onset of President Robert Mugabe's violence-ridden land-reform programme more than four years ago.
Manicaland province, with its lush, evergreen-forested mountains, exotic birdlife and proximity to Mozambique, was a magnet for foreign tourists in the 1990s.
But attacks on white farmers, political insecurity and shortages of essentials like fuel have scared off visitors.
Workers in the local industry are glum.