It’s
about time now Domestic tourism should gain its new image in Tanzania regarding
the fact that, International Tourism is facing the challenges that have no
local controls and seems to be difficult to resist them. In this kind of
situation, Domestic tourism seems to be the right solution to the gapes that has
been left by International tourism. The gapes that are referred are such as
restrained economic gains, unemployment due to redundancy, social gains and
many more of the same reflection. Tanzania tourism industry is among the
industries that are major victims of the matters that have no local origin
which affects badly tourism industry and neglects the country to have fool
exploitation of tourism potentials that are available in the country. Empirical
examples of situations that have in the history of Tanzania led international
tourism not to perform impressively include recession in world economies in
1973 and 2008-2009, enormous increase in oil prices from 1973 and drought of
1974. Other events are closure of Kenya - Tanzania border in 1977, the Uganda
War of 1978/79, the September 11, 2001 attack to World Trade Centre in USA,
Westgate terrorists attack in 2013 in Kenya, denial of the citizens coming from
USA, UK and Australia to visit Kenya due to terrorists attack in 2013, Ebola
eruption in West Africa in 2014 and other terrorism events in the northern
hemisphere. Apart from that, international tourism is very susceptible to poor
tourism infrastructure, and bad press publicity. Besides, the intense
competition for overseas tourists especially with other countries offering
similar products like Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa and Uganda affects
the tourism sector performance in Tanzania. With the country like Tanzania
lying in the second position after Brazil for having blessed with natural
tourism attraction such as Mountain Kilimanjaro, Serengeti National Park,
Ngorongoro Crater, beautiful beaches and a diversity of people with different
cultures which creates a basic ground for development of Cultural tourism in
Tanzania just few to mention.
The
question is that, who is going to join hands with DOTOPO to promote Domestic
tourism in Tanzania? Tanzania population is now growing very fast reaching
about 44,928,923
people,
which create a basic ground for readily Domestic Market in Tanzania.
#UTALII
KWA WOTE# TOURISM FOR ALL#
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