Tourism in Tanzania is a success. In one of the poorest countries in the world, a tourist
destination has been created that is both growing and maintaining a high quality product.
Combining increasing visitor numbers, high spending tourists and a respectable length of
stay is a real achievement (and one that has eluded several more affluent African countries
with much larger tourism sectors). As a result, tourism is very important to the Tanzanian
economy. In 2007, the tourism sector directly and indirectly contributed US $1.6 billion–or …