Category: Tanzania Travel and Tourism News
Tanzania Travel & tourism news for tourism professionals, visitors in Tanzania. Breaking news relevant to travel, safety, hotels, resorts, attractions, tours and transportation in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam and Tanzania Travel and visitors' information. Tanzania is an East African country known for its vast wilderness areas. They include the plains of Serengeti National Park, a safari mecca populated by the “big five” game (elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino), and Kilimanjaro National Park, home to Africa’s highest mountain. Offshore lie the tropical islands of Zanzibar, with Arabic influences, and Mafia, with a marine park home to whale sharks and coral reefs.
Wildlife conservation in style with a feel for African communities
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- January 16, 2021In Ngorongoro in Tanzania, local communities are benefiting directly from tourism gains accrued from over 600,000 tourists visiting the park ... Read More
Domestic tourism in Kilimanjaro takes shape this Christmas
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- December 25, 2020Setting the agenda for domestic and regional tourism in East Africa, Christmas and New Year trips in Northern Tanzania and ... Read More
Tourism Hero Rebuilds One Tourism Community at a time – virtually
Juergen T Steinmetz- December 14, 2020World Tourism Network last week honored Robin Richman of Steppin Out Adventure, in Chicago, USA to enter the Hall of ... Read More
Action plan launched to conserve giraffe in Tanzania
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- December 12, 2020Five year Giraffe Conservation Action Plan is under implementation to research and conserve giraffe in Tanzania, targeting to save it from ... Read More
World Tourism Network Highlights Mafia Island as Good Case Study
Linda Hohnholz, eTN editor- December 11, 2020Celebrating the launch of the World Tourism Network (WTN) with a month of interesting events from all over the world, ... Read More
New Tanzania Tourism Minister Announced
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- December 10, 2020Announcing his new ministerial cabinet last weekend, Tanzania President John Magufuli has appointed Dr. Damas Ndumbaru the new Tanzania Tourism ... Read More
Tanzania Named Most Fascinating African Destination
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- December 5, 2020Participants at the first Africa Tourism Day held on November 26 in Nigeria voted Tanzania as the most exciting and ... Read More
New Tanzania Wildlife Safari Park
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- November 28, 2020Celebrating Africa Tourism Day, plans are being developed to promote a newly-established Tanzania wildlife safari park which is now standing ... Read More
Tanzanian tour operator assumes chairmanship of African Travel and Tourism Association
Adam Ihucha - eTN Tanzania- November 9, 2020A Tanzanian, John Corse, has been unanimously elected the chairman of African Travel and Tourism Association (ATTA). Mr. Corse is ... Read More
African Tourism Board marks two years of success
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- November 5, 2020The African Tourism Board is celebrating two years after its impressive soft launching and introduction to the global tourism arena ... Read More
Tanzania tourism announces major shift in destination marketing strategy
Adam Ihucha - eTN Tanzania- October 27, 2020Tanzanian tour operators plan to bring the key Global Travel Agents into Tanzania in their latest painstaking initiatives to promote ... Read More
Tanzania implements a World Bank-funded tourism project
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- October 18, 2020Best for domestic, rural and regional tourism in East and Southern Africa, the World Bank-funded Resilient Natural Resource Management for Tourism ... Read More
Tourism Slowly Returning to Normal in East Africa
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- October 12, 2020Tourism is slowly but surely returning to normal in East Africa after regional states opened their skies and territorial borders ... Read More
Massive fire breaks out on Mount Kilimanjaro
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- October 12, 2020Fire broke out on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro on Sunday afternoon, causing fear and panic among people living on ... Read More
France Becomes Premier Inbound Travel Market to Tanzania
Adam Ihucha - eTN Tanzania- October 8, 2020France has been ranked as the leading inbound travel market to Tanzania, since the latter re-opened its skies for travel ... Read More
Tanzania Opens its Skies to Kenya-registered Airlines
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- September 16, 2020Tanzania has lifted its ban on Kenyan registered airlines, opening a new cooperation over the East African skies after a ... Read More
Who is Believing My Story? Tanzania Tourism Minister Kigwangala Challenges the African Tourism Board Ministerial Discussion
editor- September 4, 2020eTN reported about the Mafia Style reopening in a recent podcast in a rebuilding.travel discussion a month ago with Peter ... Read More
The Second African Tourism Board Second Ministerial Round Table Opened
editor- September 4, 2020Cuthbert Ncube, the Chairman of the African Tourism Board (ATB), yesterday opened the 2nd virtual ministerial round table organized by ... Read More
East African Tourism Stuck in Turbulent Skies
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- September 2, 2020Tourism investors in the region are challenged by the ongoing airspace tension between Kenya and Tanzania, now damaging the East ... Read More
3 More Kenyan Airlines Locked Out by Tanzania
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- August 29, 2020Three more Kenyan airlines locked out in Tanzania as the two countries’ apparent standoff over management of COVID-19 deteriorates. Aviation ... Read More
Strategic Partnership to Revive Tanzania Tourism
Adam Ihucha - eTN Tanzania- August 29, 2020The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is supporting the Tanzania Association of Tour Operators (TATO) to revive the Tanzania tourism ... Read More
Kenya Airways denied entry into Tanzanian sky
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- August 26, 2020A dark cloud is hanging over the East African skies in a standoff between Kenya Airways and the Tanzanian aviation ... Read More
Renowned conservationist and a man behind Tanzania-France ties dies at 94
Adam Ihucha - eTN Tanzania- August 17, 2020Gérard Pasanisi, a renowned French national who devoted his entire life to foster tourism development and wildlife conservation in the ... Read More
TATO CEO wins maiden prestigious Tourism Personnel of the year 2020 Award
Adam Ihucha - eTN Tanzania- August 16, 2020He has been in the crossfire, trying to harmonize public and private interests in tourism industry for six years consecutively. ... Read More
Reopening Tanzania Tourism Mafia Island Style
editor- August 10, 2020A persona around the idea of “new tourism”: Slow, immersive, kind, local, sustainable, climate-friendly. This type of new tourism includes ... Read More
Tanzania Travel Advisory for COVID-19 adjusted
Juergen T Steinmetz- August 6, 2020Tanzania today announced, that all travelers, whether foreigners or returning residents entering or leaving the country will be subjected to ... Read More
New US Ambassador to Tanzania Finally Starts Tour of Duty
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- August 4, 2020The newly-appointed US Ambassador to Tanzania, Dr. Donald Wright, has taken over his tour of duty after several years of ... Read More
Africa marks sixty years of dedicated Chimpanzee research
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- August 3, 2020Tanzania and other regional member states of the East African community are marking sixty years of chimpanzee conservation, setting a ... Read More
Can the Annual Wildebeest Migration Boost Domestic Tourism?
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- August 1, 2020Counted among the New Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Wildebeest Migration in the Serengeti plains in Tanzania has ... Read More
The Mafia Island Model for a brand-new approach to tourism explained
Juergen T Steinmetz- July 31, 2020This type of new tourism includes food, drinks, dancing, swimming, white sandy beaches, diving, bird watching, turtle hatching, a lighthouse, ... Read More
Tanzania hunts for tourist hotel investors in its new capital
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- July 24, 2020Tanzania government had set open investment space for high-class hotels in the new capital city Dodoma, targeting to attract international ... Read More
Hurricane Douglas on a path directly to Hawaii
Juergen T Steinmetz- July 23, 2020Hurricane Douglas seems to be on a direct path towards the Hawaiian Islands but is expected to weaken before it ... Read More
East Africa Airports COVID-19 Staff Training
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- July 21, 2020East Africa Airports COVID-19 staff training on safety measures is being conducted with the aim being to equip them to ... Read More
Countries Americans can travel to on vacation during COVID-19
Juergen T Steinmetz- July 19, 2020With 3,844,271 Americans were sick with the Coronavirus after 47,5 million were tested out of a total population of 331 ... Read More
German Travel Warnings for Tanzania, Seychelles, Mauritius, and Namibia challenged
Juergen T Steinmetz- July 11, 2020In Germany, two tour operators specialists in travel to Africa have filed a legal action at the Berlin Administrative Court ... Read More
3 weeks after reopening Tanzania for tourism no spike in COVID-19
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- July 5, 2020On June 18, Tanzania officially reopened its borders. Three weeks into this, there is no new spike in Coronavirus infection. ... Read More
