TTB HAPPY WITH THE ONGOING CONSTURCTION OF TERMINAL THREE
The Managing Director of Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) Ms. Devota Mdachi has expressed her gratitude to the ongoing construction of terminal three of Julius Nyerere International Airport noting that it will attract more international airline to destination Tanzania once is fully completed and begin operating.
Ms. Mdachi made this observation recently after visiting a site to see the development of the terminal three constructions which is part of the upgrading project of the Airport. The Managing Director accompanied in the site visit with other officials from TTB who are members of cooperation committee between Tanzania Tourist Board and Tanzania Airport Authority (TAA) formed to see how best two institutions can closely work together in marketing destination Tanzania, increase number of international airlines coming to Tanzania as well as increasing number of tourist arrivals.
Prior to site the visit, the committee held a meeting to discuss on various issues in line with the areas of cooperation and made some deliberations toward strengthening destination Tanzania marketing endeavors and the promotion of the new terminal globally.
According to engineer Farashuu Faraji the terminal three will have eight boarding gates and five conveyer belts at baggage claim area once two phases ‘constructions of the terminal is concluded.
FINISH TOURISM STAKEHOLDERS PAY A COURTESY CALL TO TTB
Tourism stakeholders from Duara travels, the Finish based company recently paid a courtesy call to Tanzania Tourist Board’s Managing Director Ms Devota Mdachi to introduce themselves and their company. They also introduced other community based projects they undertake here in Tanzania and exchange views on how tourism activities such as cultural tourism (under TTB’s Cultural Tourism Program) can as well be included in their projects.
The Managing Director of Tanzania Tourist Board Ms. Devota Mdachi insisting a point to Ms Johanna Viarros and Elina Vaipio from Finland when they paid her a visit at TTB head office in Dar es salaam.
Ms Devota Mdachi the Managing Director of TTB and the Tanzania Tourist Board’s Tourism Services Manager Mr. Philip Chitaunga share a light moment with the visiting tourism stakeholders from Finland (not in picture) in TTB board room recently
Ms Devota Mdachi presenting a bag with some promotional materials to Ms Johanna as Philip Chitaunga witnesses.
Serengeti cultural festival 19-21 July 2016
Serengeti Cultural Festival is the very unique annual cultural celebration event which is held in every third week of July at mugumu town in rural Mara region, western Tanzania. About 40 kilometers from the Ikoma Gate of Serengeti national park, July 19 to 21. It is an open-air event that brings together traditional dancers from the people of tribes between Lake Zone and Serengeti national park and will give visitors to Serengeti national park a chance to supplement their game-viewing safari with experience of African traditional dance and art. Traditionally most of the festivals, exhibitions and trade fairs are usually staged in urban areas. The event will run for three days between 10:00 am and 4 pm and the participants include people of the kurya, ikoma,masai, wamagati, sukuma,jita and ngoreme tribes. For further information about the event, you can contact the organizer of the event by telephone, +255 784402113, +255 767402113 or Email: serengeticulturalc@gmail.com, info@serengeticulturalcentre.com
THE OBJECTIVES OF CULTURAL FESTIVAL:
- Promote cultural tourism, environmental conservation, cultural heritage and provide employment opportunity to the people and entertains Tourists.
- Empower local people economically as are encouraged to vend their handcraft and work of Art in the stadium.
- Give opportunity to Companies that sponsor or contribute towards achievements of the festival to make brandings of their products or the services they offer to the community. This enables them to expand the market and customers
- Sensitize people on certain issues that confront the community through traditional arts
Venue: mugumu town. Mara region.
Date: 19-21 July 2016.
Theme: “Tourism and the quality of life”
For further information:
Cell phone: +255 784 402113, +255 767 402113
Email: info@serengeticulturalcentre.com
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TANZANIA NAMED FINALIST IN BEST TOURIST BOARD AFRICA CATEGORY FOR ANNUAL TRAVVY AWARDS
Tourism sector in Tanzania is continuing to perform well at international arena after the country’s responsible organ for marketing Tanzania as a tourist destination Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB), being named one of three finalists in Destination:- Best Tourist Board Africa category for the 2015 Travvy Awards that recognizes the highest standards of excellence in the Industry today and honors travel companies, travel products, travel agencies, travel executives, travel agents and travel destinations. Other two finalist countries under the category are South Africa Tourism and Namibia Tourism Board.
Tourism sector in Tanzania is continuing to perform well at international arena after the country’s responsible organ for marketing Tanzania as a tourist destination Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB), being named one of three finalists in Destination:- Best Tourist Board Africa category for the 2015 Travvy Awards that recognizes the highest standards of excellence in the Industry today and honors travel companies, travel products, travel agencies, travel executives, travel agents and travel destinations. Other two finalist countries under the category are South Africa Tourism and Namibia Tourism Board.
Selection of the finalists is based on votes by travel agents. The final two winners in the respective categories are determined by the award-winning Travel Alliance editorial team.
The Annual Travvy Awards will be presented by TravAlliancemedia at a Gala Awards night, New York City, January 6, 2016.
“Tanzania is honored to be among the finalists for Africa. This is the result of the dedicated and pro-active work in the US market by Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB), together with The Bradford Group, TTB’s USA representative, and the strong support of Tanzania National Parks and Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority as well as the Tanzania Embassy in Washington and the Tanzania Mission to the UN in New York.“ commented, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism Dr. Adelhelm Meru
He further said that In addition to Tanzania having some of the world’s most renown tourism icons, the Serengeti and the Great Animal Migration, Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Ngorongoro Crater as well as the hidden gems of the South, the Selous Game Reserve and Ruaha National Park, visitors from all over the world are also attracted to Tanzania because of its peace and tranquility, stability and prevailing democracy in the country that makes Tanzania a suitable place to stay for visitors.
This new development comes after recent developments where Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar were named by the US Travel and Leisure Magazine among the annual Best Places to Travel in 2016. Tanzania was also named among 52 places to go this year by the ‘New York Times’, the best African Destination to visit by the Fox News Channel, the best safari Country of Africa by SafariBookings.com and Tanzania’s Mt Kilimanjaro and Serengeti National Park being named two of the greatest parks in the World by National Geographic Magazine to mention just a few. Destination Tanzania has also received continuous positive coverage in the major travel publications and broadcast media
TTB AWARDS CERTIFICATES TO KILI CLIMBERS
Tanzania Tourist Board has awarded certificated to this year Uhuru expedition ‘s Mt Kilimanjaro climbers in recognition to their contribution in promoting domestic tourist through climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.
The certificates were present to climbers by the guest of honour Moshi District Administrative Secretary Ms Remida Ibrahim when receiving the expedition led by the retired Chief of Defence Forces General George Waitara at the Marangu gate. Among the climbers who started ascending the mountain on 5th December this year were TTB’ s retired chairman Ambassador Charles Sanga and Luteni not General Samwel Ndomba.
The expedition group was met at the gate guest of honor and Officials from TANAPA and TTB.
ETIHAD AIRWAYS LAUNCH FLIGHTS TO TANZANIA
The United Arab Emirates National Airline’s Etihad Airways has launched daily direct flights from Abu Dhabi to Julius Nyerere International Airport Dar es salaam Tanzania. The inauguration event took place today November 1st, 2015 when the Airline’s Airbus A320 aircraft from UAE landed at the airport around 13:20 with passengers aboard of which among them were Tanzanians living in the United Arab Emirates and journalists from China.
The arrival of the first flight was witnessed by the Ambassador of the UAE in Tanzania H.E Ibrahim Al-Suwaidi who cut a ribbon to symbolize the launching of the daily flights of the airline. Among the dignitaries who were present during the event at the Julius Nyerere International Airport were The Permanent secretaries of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism Dr. Adelhelm Meru and Ministry of Transport Dr. Shaaban Mwinjakana respectively.
The Etihad which becomes the fourth Airline from the Gulf to fly to Tanzania after Emirates, Qatar Airways and Fly dubai, registers Tanzania as its 110th destination worldwide, and eleventh in Africa. The Introduction of Ethad’s Airways daily flight to Tanzania is expected to have positive impact on the development of tourism sector as well as trade in the country.
Some passengers from Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates disembarking from the of Etihad Airways’ Airbus A320 after landing for the first time at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es salaam.
The Ambassador of the UAE in Tanzania H.E Ibrahim Al-Suwaidi (Fourth from right) cuts a ribbon to symbolize the official launching of the daily flights of the airline from Abu Dhabi to Dar-es salaam
Terry Dale Promotes Partnership to the Tanzanian Travel Industry
Terry Dale, president and CEO of the U.S. Tour Operators Association (USTOA), addressed the Swahili International Tourism Expo (S!TE) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Terry Dale, president and CEO of the U.S. Tour Operators Association (USTOA), addressed the Swahili International Tourism Expo (S!TE) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with what he called a “fireside chat, an intimate conversation with our partners,” in which he explained to travel professionals selling the destination of Tanzania that partnership was an essential tool in building their destination.
Now in its second year, S!TE is a travel trade show showcasing the Swahili Coast produced by the Tanzania Tourist Board.
The tourist board invited Dale to be a keynote speaker in recognition of the belief that targeting the elite tour operator association is the most effective way to reach the broad base of consumers in the U.S.
Dale began his talk with a brief introduction of the USTOA, explaining that it is not an organization that derives its value from its large number of members, but by their quality. The association has 54 corporate members representing 160 brands and also has 690 associate members, of which the Tanzania Tourist Board is one.
“It’s not about quantity,” Dale said. “You’re not going to see that number grow next year by a great deal. We are more like a family. We’re not driven by growth, but by quality.”
Thirty-eight of the association’s brands already have programs to Tanzania, Dale noted.
“We need to see that number grow to 50, to 75, to 100,” he said. “Part of my responsibility in being here today is to go back to our members and tell them, ‘I have seen firsthand how amazing Tanzania is and (recommend) that they include more of Tanzania, more of Eastern Africa into the products that we have to sell to the U.S. consumer.’”
Dale cited a Price Waterhouse Cooper economic impact study showing that tour operator members of the USTOA account for $13.5 billion in business annually. They moved 8 million travelers last year, a five percent increase over the previous year, and sold $9.8 billion in goods and services.
The way for Tanzania to build itself as a tourism destination, said Dale, is by constructing a partnership.
“That’s why I’m here today,” he said, “to try to forge that partnership and make that business grow on behalf of Tanzania.”
Dale explained to the audience the reasons why he is “bullish about the U.S. travel industry.
“It has tremendous potential,” he declared. “There is an educational hurdle” to surmount in getting into the American market, he conceded, but “it is feasible and possible” and something that needs to be addressed immediately.
Dale cited a number of reasons why the American market is an excellent target market for Tanzania, including the following facts and statistics:
Fifty-six percent of Americans are in the world’s high income group, and 46 percent have passports, a total of 110 million people, a number that has doubled since 2000.
“They have financial wherewithal to travel,” asserted Dale. “They have passports, but we have the educational challenge of helping them understand why Tanzania needs to be one of the places they visit.”
In 2013, 30 million Americans traveled internationally, Dale pointed out. “But you have to educate them.”
In referring to the global economy, Dale cited a list of trends that may have an impact on getting people to travel to Tanzania, including the softening of the Chinese economy; Greece trying to figure out how to handle its responsibilities to the International Monetary Fund as well as the European Union; the Fed’s upcoming raising of interest rates and the presidential political circus.
All of these have a potential impact on global economy, Dale stated, but he is still bullish about the U.S. economy.
Dale cited the Packaged Travel Index, produced by Cornell University, which studies U.S. consumers. The survey, conducted twice a year, showed that 84 percent of U.S. consumers said they want to travel internationally. In households with income of $150,000 or more, people want to travel three times a year.
“Those factors combined bode well for Tanzania,” said Dale, showing a strong potential U.S. market for Tanzania.
Dale then explained what USTOA members need from Tanzania tourism services providers, including “professional quality partners who can deliver the kind of experience that make our members proud. Professionalism is really key. Our members are all about building a personal relationship. They want to be able to look at you across the table and have the confidence that together you can create the kind of experience that we can all be proud of.”
That kind of experience, Dale said, is “all about authenticity.”
The U.S. consumer wants to rub shoulders with locals, he said. “And they can only do that if you have the interaction, the engagement between the traveler and the citizens of this country.”
Dale cited Tanzania’s “Soul of Africa” campaign as a step in the right direction, but said, “We still have a huge job ahead of us in getting that brand in front of the U.S. traveler.”
TTB HEAD OFFICE RELOCATION
The Tanzania Tourist Board would like to inform stakeholders and the public in general that as from 1st September 2015 the Tanzania Tourist Board headquarters will move from IPS building located at the junction of Azikiwe Street and Samora Avenue to its building UTALII House (former American Embassy) opposite Stanbic bank Headquarters (along Ally Hassan Mwinyi Road and corner of Laiboni Street) in Dar salaam. For More information read.
erry Dale to speak at the Swahili International Tourism Expo (S!TE) 2015
(June 18, 2015, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) The Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) is pleased to announce that Terry Dale, CEO and President of the United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) will be a featured speaker at the second annual Swahili International Tourism Expo (S!TE). S!TE 2015 will take place at the Mlimani City Conference Centre, October 1-3, 2015 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
The world’s most amazing craters
One of the best perks of traveling is that you get to see natural wonders up close. Visit a massive crater, and you’ll find yourself reflecting upon the vastness of the world and your tiny role in it.
Bowl-shaped, hollowed-out craters are formed by volcanoes, meteorites and other explosions. They’re found all over the world and they come in all shapes and sizes. One of the largest – Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater –is more than 100 miles wide and 2000 feet deep.