National Geographic is promoting Tanzanian parks

TANAPA staff with Andrew Evans of Digital Nomad of National Geographic of USA at Kibo Palace after descending from Uhuru Peak on 16.12.12. Andrew had visited 9 parks and shared with thousands of people in the world. National Geographic is promoting Tanzanian parks through different medias including social networks (picture by Victor Kentansi)

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A belly bridge across Wami River has now shortened the Dar es Salaam-Bagamoyo road to Saadani National Park. Earlier visitors to the Park had to use a longer route via Mandela junction.
The park is gearing up for tourism in the park! (Picture by Dr. Ezekiel Dembe)

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A pack of wild dogs recently seen during a hot air balloon flight in Serengeti.

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Members of the Board of Trustees enjoying a boat ride to Saanane Island National Park, Mwanza (picture by Dr. Ezekiel Dembe)

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Domminique Veranni Colas (51), Laurence Aclocque (50) and Roman Soler (28) are disabled tourists climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro through Marangu route for seven days. Started on 10/09/2012, they will discend through Mweka route on16/09/2012. Under determination everything is possible! Everybody can climb Mt. Kilimanjaro.

A tourism working group at Shira Plateau (Shira I) during a field visit in Kilimanjaro National Park.

Panaromic view of the Shira Plateau where you can easily view the Kibo peak, Shira peak and Mount Meru on a clear day. The plateau is a haven for day and summit bound visitors.

Tourists flying Regional Air to Serengeti National Park (picture by Dr Ezekiel Dembe).

Students from Olympus Pre and Primary School of Bunda at Ikoma Gate are visiting Serengeti National Park in 3 buses. Such visits are meant to create awareness to young Tanzanians on our national heritage!! (Picture by Dr. Ezekiel Dembe)

Machame Gate Climbers are preparing to hike Mt. Kilimanjaro through Machame Route (Picture by Erastus T. Lufungulo)

Climbers pitched their tents at Shira Cave while enjoying the scenery of Western side of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the plains of Kitendeni, Sinya and Ngasurai (Picture by Erastus T. Lufungulo)

It is lunch time at the Serengeti Visitor Centre!! Visitors come to this 'must visit place for information, picnicking, shopping, watching wildlife videos and use of restrooms. Park Management have increased the parking space to accommodate more vehicles (picture by Dr. Ezekiel Dembe)

The Board of Survey (BoS) visited Mikumi National Park and had an opportunity to inspect the on going rehabilitation of the road that will link Mikumi and Selous Game Reserve. The BoS and Park Management drove 112km from Park HQ via Vuma Hill to Mahondo, Pwaga and Lumanga Ranger Posts with ease. This road has been difficult for many years and forced park rangers to use Mikumi-Kidatu road which longer than the one inside the park (picture by Dr. Ezekiel Dembe).

Tourists are increasing in Udzungwa National Park. Some of the tourists staying at TANAPA owned Twiga Hotel enjoying their dinner in the restaurant (picture by Dr. Ezekiel Dembe)

Tourists leaving Ruaha National Park at the busy Msembe airstrip (picture by Dr Ezekiel Dembe)

Group of Buffalos at Katavi National Park

Group of Elephants in Seronera, Serengeti

Chinese Conglomerate to invest in Serengeti Park

By Pascal Shelutete



A Chinese millionaire with capital worth over 700 million US dollars, Mr. Zhou Yi has shown interest to build a luxurious accommodation facility in Serengeti National Park. Zhou declared his interest yesterday before the Tanzanian delegation visiting China to look for prospective Chinese investors in the tourism sector.

Zhou who owns a very successful business company in China said that, he visited Serengeti in March this year and was very much attracted by the beauty of the place. “It is a coincidence to have met here and I can assure you that I have been impressed by the park and I am now in the initial stages of applying for an investment site in the area to put up a modern accommodation facility to help increase the number of beds.

Mr. Zhou is the owner of the Hengxu Group of Companies with headquarters in Sichuan Province specializing in the production of various building materials; industrial packaging materials and financial services.  The company employs over 7,000 people.

The Tanzanian delegation was participating in the Chinese Outbound Travel & Tourism Market (COTTM) that took place from 9-11 April 2013. The team is now conducting Road Shows in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou cities to lure Chinese tourists and investors to Tanzania.

In Beijing the Road-Show attracted a big number of investors who were impressed by the existing investment procedures especially in the protected areas. They are thinking of visiting the country to have an on the spot experience of the areas before they decide to invest there.

Earlier on, both the Tanzanian Ambassador in China Mr. Philip Marmo and Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism Ms. Nuru Millao had assured the participants that Tanzania is the best place to visit and see the natural attractions which the country is uniquely blessed with after Brazil.

Chinese investors have been encouraged to take the advantage of the country’s political stability and the prevailing peace to invest in Tanzania.

Attended by both government, Embassy officials and private sector stakeholders from Tanzania, road-show in Beijing presented various investment opportunities in the country especially in big cities, protected areas of National Parks; Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Archaeological Heritage sites.

TODAY'S KIBONZO by Yonli

CCTV LIVE COVERAGE ON WILDEBEEST MIGRATION CAPTURES THE ATTENTION OF CHINESE

By Pascal Shelutete in Beijing

Tanzanian delegation (left) in a discussion with official from the Chinese National Tourism Administration in Beijing China

Live coverage of the Serengeti Wildebeest Migration by the China Central Television attracts Chinese to visit the country as tourists. This was said yesterday by the Vice Chairman of the Chinese National Tourism Administration Mr. Zhu Shanzhong to a visiting Tanzanian delegation.

Mr. Shanzhong said that Serengeti National Park where a number of live coverage of the wildebeest migration has been done since January this year, is now becoming popular to the Chinese population and expressed his hope that the move would increase the number of Chinese visiting Tanzania as tourists in the near future. 

He further said that the recent visit to Tanzania by the Chinese president HE Xi Jinping has exposed the country in China and the international community and wrapped up by saying that its uniqueness in natural attractions must propel the country to fight for a big share of the lucrative Chinese outbound tourism market.

In responding to the earlier request by the Tanzania delegation on training and capacity building areas in the tourism sector, Mr. Shanzhong said that National Tourism Administration of China together with their counterpart in Tanzania will prepare Memorandum of Understanding which will be signed in the near future and which will categorically specify areas of cooperation in terms of assistance and cooperation between the two countries.

During the meeting, Mr. Shanzhong lobbied for the support of Tanzanian government in approving the Chinese language to become one of the official languages in the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). An approval from more than half of the member countries is needed for a language to be approved as official language. Tanzanian delegation led by the Director of Tourism Mr. Ibrahim Mussa promised to support the Chinese move before the coming UNWTO General Assembly that will be held in Zambia and Zimbabwe in August this year.