SAADANI National Park has recorded booming tourism, a trend expected to continue in the coming years, the park’s development authority has announced.
The park’s Acting Chief Warden, Mr Lomi
Ole Meikasi, said the number of visitors grew by 84 per cent between
2005 and 2015. “The park welcomed a record of 450,000 tourists in 2015
from 3758 recorded in 2005,” he said, adding that the growth is expected
to surpass in 2016.
Mr Meikasi made the revelation when
speaking to a team of women journalists who toured the park through
Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) sponsorship. He said the massive record
brought in over 1.3b/- revenue collection....an increase of 95 per cent
of 49m/ collected in 2005.
The park recorded the majority of
international tourists compared to the local. According to Mr Meikasi,
the growth is attributed by a good management plans set by the park
authority to ensure increased and quality tourists’ attractions and
services.
“We do a lot of advertisements of the
parks destinations in and outside the country promoting and marketing
the park,” said the park’s Chief Operator, Ms Aipakunda Mungure.
She said the park’s authority strived to
ensure that new and quality tourism products that attract both local
and international tourists are availed every year to keep the pace of
tourism growth in the park.
On the other hand, Mr Meikasi told the
visiting journalists that good management has seen control of many
issues facing the smooth growth of the park, including poaching and
illegal hunting.
Mr Meikasi said the park recorded no
incidences of elephants poaching cases and illegal hunting in 2015
contrary to the past years. Since 2005, the park recorded six incidents
of elephant poaching.
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