Tanzania Economy

Tourism leads Tanzania’s economy

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (eTN) – Growing at a steady rate for the past seven years, Tanzania’s tourism is booming to become the country’s leading foreign income earner with nearly triple the incomes accrued from agriculture, which has dropped its earning in recent years.

Southern TanzaniaTourism

Tanzania’s biggest park opens its doors for tourist investments

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (eTN) - Local companies in the rich but dormant southern Tanzania tourist circuit are rushing to invest in Ruaha National Park hoping to take advantage of the park’s global publicity and expansion.

At least ten tourist lodges operating inside and outside of the park will be expanded to become the biggest ... read more

Tanzania Tourism

Tanzania gets a new tourism minister

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (eTN) - Tanzania, an upcoming African tourist destination has got a new tourism minister, Mrs. Shamsa Mwangunga who replaced the former minister in the same portfolio Professor Jumanne Maghembe in a major government shake up.

East Africa Tourism

Tanzania Tourism suffers in Kenya's post election violence

Arusha, Tanzania (eTN) – It is now official: Kenya's disputed December 27, 2007 poll has sucked Tanzania's multi-dollars tourism industry into the fray.

So far, the industry was hit by mass trip cancellations; with the chief of Tanzania Association of Tour Operators (TATO), Mustafa Akuunay, put the number of scrapping planned visits ... read more