LUSAKA, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Southern Africa Tourism Exposition (SATX), which was scheduled to take place in Zambia's Livingstone this month, has been postponed to the next year.

The exposition would now be held between April and May, 2009, according to Times of Zambia on Monday.

The total budget for the exhibition is 1.9 billion Kwacha (540,000 U.S dollars), although not all the funds were in place yet.

Exhibitors from the Southern African development Community and across Africa had been invited to the event, organisers said.