Tanzania is taking actions to strengthen its tourism sector through various initiatives such as promoting community involvement, leveraging smart technologies like AI for wildlife monitoring, and streamlining visitor management with smart ticketing, recent government initiatives, including the restructuring of the Tanzania Tourist Board aim to improve policy implementation and and resolve issue through an ombudsman office, improvement of infrastructure and incoming services and a joint venture between the Tanzania Tourism Sector Safety & Protection (TTSSP) and Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) is set to develop 10 new Tourist Information Centres in major ports of entry and at significant attractions, to provide visitors with an enhanced tourism experience.
The new Tourism Information Centres will provide updated information about all the country’s tourist attractions, safety issues, important tourism events, and other crucial services, all that in a professional environment offering visitors information, research and assistance in the country.
Each of these new centres will house highly skilled staff who will have expertise in tourism matters, as well as being able to speak a variety of languages include English, Swahili, French, German and Chinese, and they will provide fast internet and interactive touch screen along with maps, videos and other printed information.
The scheme plans to form strategic partnerships between the tourist information centres and tour operators, hotels, airlines, and transport companies, while establishing a robust system for collecting data on the number of tourists, areas they visit, their feeback, and safety issues.
A specialist team from the Tourism Centres will conduct in - depth and on -going research to identify areas with the potential to become new attractions like traditions and customs, areas with rare wildlife, hidden waterfalls or unique caves and much more, providing visitors more tourist options for tailor made itineraries across the Tanzanian territory.
The Chief Executive Secretary at TTSSP, Dr. Majaliwa Maswila explained that this team will collaborate with natural and cultural experts, as well as travel professionals to ensure that there are tourism packages that combine new and existing attractions, targeting various tourist groups.
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