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The main study of this dissertation was to assess the impacts of Tourism activities on
socio-economic livelihood of communities. The study involved Mikumi National
Park in Morogoro and Bagamoyo coastal regions respectively. A cross sectional
study design was employed to collect data, the specific objectives that guided the
research were, the assessment of respondents socio-economic activities, assessing
challenges facing the performance of tourism activities in Mikumi national park and
Bagamoyo district and evaluation of measures needed to be taken to improve the
performance of tourism activities in two respective areas. The methodologies
employed during the collection of data were interview, observation and
documentary review, face to face interviews were done with 120 people aged 18
years and above living near Mikumi national park and Bagamoyo. Data Management
was done using Epidata software, and data analysis was done using both Microsoft
excel and stata software version 11.0 (statcorp, Texas, USA).
Results from the Correlation analysis revealed that, the three factors (employment,
income generation and government taxes) correlated with community livelihood
benefits; it was revealed that, the above mentioned socio-economic factors were
positive and significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). Results of ANOVA test revealed
that there is a significant difference in the overall community livelihood
improvement basing on the socio-economic dimensions. In this respective;
employment creation(0.300) carried heaviest weight for overall livelihood
improvement of the community followed by income generation(0.277) and
government taxes come third with (0.266). The study thus conclude, tourism
activities have improved livelihood of the people in the area, through employment
and income generation, and supporting local government revenue, and in some
occasion sharing benefits through social responsibility, like buildings schools,
dispensary. Based on results, the study recommends that; hotels investors need to
empower local staffs through training, aiming in enabling them in getting senior
employment position, there is a need of purchasing local inputs from those areas, this
will boost standard of living for the local community in the area. |
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