The Pro-Poor Approach to Tourism and its Impact in Tanzania
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The Eastern African Journal of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism
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Poverty is more severe in Tanzania rural areas than in urban areas. Almost 70% of Tanzanian lives in
rural areas and their main economic activity is agriculture. Tourism is emerging as important sector in
Tanzania economic activity after Agriculture. Pro-poor tourism is the type of tourism that aims to
increase the net benefits for the poor or people marginalized in tourism industry, and ensure that
tourism growth contributes to poverty reduction. Although the primary benefits of pro-poor tourism
are economic gain its secondary benefits might be social, environmental or cultural. There are many
forms of pro-poor tourism at a given destinations: they depends on several factors including the natural
resource available, tourist demands, innovations and creativity, cultural and arts aspects of local
people and geographical location of an area. In Tanzania we have a number of pro-poor tourism types
that are in practice. This year Tanzania attained a middle-income status, and it is forecasted that
tourism is going to be the fulcrum of sustainable economic activities which could fasten economic
growth, promote additional productive jobs, more fiscal revenues, additional foreign exchange
earnings and poverty reduction in the country. The aim of this paper is to review these pro-tourism
types in Tanzania and their impacts in poverty reduction.
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Pro Tourism