Tanzania marks World Tourism Day on the shores of Lake Victoria

In observing this year’s World Tourism Day, Tanzania will be marking this day through an exhibition in Mwanza city on the shores of Lake Victoria, Africa’s biggest water body.

In observing this year’s World Tourism Day, Tanzania will be marking this day through an exhibition in Mwanza city on the shores of Lake Victoria, Africa’s biggest water body.

Jointly organized by the Tanzania Tourist Board, government, and private tourist stakeholders, the exhibition has been organized on the shores of Lake Victoria to match with this year’s World Tourism Day message of “Tourism and Water – Protecting Our Common Future.”

Lake Victoria covers an area of 68,800 kilometers (26,600 sq. mi.) and stands as Africa’s largest inland water body and the world’s second largest freshwater lake.

As the source of River Nile, Lake Victoria receives most of its water contents from Kagera River which is the largest stream flowing into this lake, and whose source is Rwanda and Tanzania.

Several tourism products are on display to mark this day, including archaeological findings, wildlife resources, forestry products, tourism marketing technology, African cultural heritage and historical arte-facts.

Tanzania Tourist Board officials told eTN that the event will end up over the weekend, and was expected to attract visitors from Lake Victoria zone including Uganda.

Other than wildlife, archaeological and cultural heritage sites are the upcoming tourist attractions in Tanzania, currently attracting foreign tourists looking to interact and meeting the local communities.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania, Bagamoyo and Kilwa Historical Sites on the Indian Ocean coast are the upcoming, famous tourist hotspots pulling visitors interested to meet local communities and coming closer with the African history.
Organizers of the national World Tourism Day said tourism was a vital instrument on water preservation and supply. Tourists visiting Tanzania and Africa have been supporting local communities with water facilities.

Local communities inside Ngorongoro Wildlife Park in northern Tanzania are currently benefiting from tourism through water distribution to their localities through tourist incomes donated by the park authorities and individual tourists.

Humanitarian support through clean water distribution has been extended by tourist companies and individual tourists to local communities neighboring Serengeti National Park and Mount Kilimanjaro, all in northern Tanzania.

Among African countries with poor distribution of water to her people, many Tanzanians face acute shortage of water, while tourist hotels outsource their own water supplies to serve their clients.

It is estimated that each tourist staying at a hotel in Tanzania use 40 liters of water every day.

Authorities in the Lake Victoria city are as well, campaigning to protect the lake waters and its wildlife island parks of Rubondo and Saa Nane.

Mwanza is the gateway to Serengeti National Park, Mahale and Gombe Chimpanzees parks via its airport.

Lake Victoria offers fresh water recreations on its beaches covering Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. A number of tourist hotels and lodges have been established on the lake shores.

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