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Arusha. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is today the main tourist destination in Tanzania
The rugged terrain of the Arusha region, famous for its picturesque craters and archaeological sites, has more than 1 , 3 million visitors to the country. This year, it should receive a record 750,000 visitors, generating a substantial amount of 155.5 billion shillings, or nearly 125 billion shillings collected in 2017/2018
"The number of tourists visiting the NCA continues to climb and it's encouraging, "Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Japhet Hasunga, told AFP Tuesday that the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism had announced a 19% increase the number of visitors to 601,448 in 2017, compared to 567,983 in 2017. 2015.
The revenue-generated trend for the last three calendar years is established at Sh. 70.7 billion, Sh. 102bn and Sh 124.9 billion in 2015/2016, 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 respectively.
"I believe that with the increase in investments, NCA will fly in revenue collection," he told the forum, highlighting the improvement of the environment to make Business. He challenged the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) to establish mechanisms that will support investment and diversification of tourism products.
The NCA area of 8,292 km2 was created in 1959 to promote conservation, tourism and pastoralism.
From a remote and hard-to-reach site in the 1950s, it today attracts tens of thousands of tourists, nearly 100% of whom descend to its famous 304 square kilometer crater.
million. Joshua Mwankunda, director of The GeoPark Project Task says that geological sites will be added among tourist attractions in the diversification efforts.
This, in agreement with him, was proved by Ngorongoro's recent acquisition of GeoPark status, being the second on the African continent.
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