The Tourism Confederation of Tanzania is partnering with stakeholders to boost tourism in the country, to improve the quality of services and market destinations better.
TCT executive secretary Richard Rugimbana revealed the partnering strategy at its headquarters in Dar es Salaam.
The initiative is such designed to help uplift tourism sector of the country and become at par to other countries in the world. It will lure more foreign tourists.
Rugimbana added, “Tourists are coming in Tanzania because of the quality services that we offer, we have the best tourists’ products such as Serengeti national park, Mt. Kilimanjaro and Ngorongoro crater.”
He also commended for World Bank support to the John John Magufuli government in improving tourism sector through Resilient Natural Resource Management for Tourism and Growth Project (REGROW).
According to minister for Natural Resource and Tourism Hamis Kigwangalla the TCT strategy is to strengthen private and public sectors partnership.
He revealed working with stakeholders for the purpose to identify further opportunities and meet targets of 500,000 tourists in the next season.
Kigwangalla added, “We have so far received 11 cruise ships from different countries. Our target to receive over 30 cruise ships per year… I would like to assure you that my ministry is vigilant of the positive initiatives like this.”
As of now the tourism sector accounts 17 percent of Tanzanian GDP.
