In many countries Tourism industry is gaining a much bigger priority among the economic sectors available in particular countries. It has been witnessed that, most of the economic contribution that are gained by different countries, originate from tourism activities. An empirical example is like Tanzania in 2012 alone it generated 1712.75 (US $ Million) making it the economic sector with highest contribution in Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Apart
from that, tourism industry touches other economic sectors and accounted as one
of the important catalyst which contributes to their developments. The increased
people mobility has augmented demand in tourist destinations. Such demands are
like food, accommodation, security, infrastructures, social services (clean
water, hospitals, education), and increased trade and businesses just few to
mention. For this matter, tourism contributes to either direct employment in
tourism industry or indirect employment to other industries as explained above.
Even
at the individual level tourism plays a great impact to personal development in
immeasurable ways in regardless whether it’s a tourist or service provider. In
this matter the individuals can attain both physical and psychological well
being from the tourism activities. Also Individual can increase his/her social
capital through meeting different people, understanding of other people’s
culture, enjoyment, to increase the knowledge of different things and many more
not limited to that.
| Domestic tourists visiting Udzungwa National Park |
In
a country like Tanzania having distinguished varieties of tourism attractions both
natural and cultural attractions, it’s about time now the Government and other
players starts to think of tourism as a "HOT CAKE" sector which needs to be given
a special attention due to its’ contribution from an individual level to
national level.
#UTALII KWA WOTE#TOURISM FOR ALL#