TANZANIA TOURIST BOARD READY TO PENETRATE IN BRAZIRIAN TOURIST MARKET

Tanzania Tourist Board is set to cooperate with Brazilian media houses to market and promote destination Tanzania in Brazil so as to tap on this country which can be a good source market of tourists for Tanzania due to her huge population.
Speaking during the dinner reception prepared by Pongo Safaris at Moevenpick Royal Palm Hotel in Dar es salaam in honor of the expedition team which was in the country on their way to South Africa, the Managing Director of Tanzania Tourist Board Dr Aloyce Nzuki noted that Brazil whose population is about 400 million people is a country that Tanzania need to focus on as one of the potential tourists market. “To start with if we can manage to attract at least one percent of the population of your country it would be a wonderful inception.
The remarks were made in respond to the ambassador of Brazil in Tanzania H.E Francisco Carlos Soares Luz’s appeal to Tanzania Tourist Board to consider introducing marketing and promotional campaign in Brazil. He cited Mt. Kilimanjaro as one of the Tanzania tourist’s icon that can attract the majority of travelers from Brazil if TTB can launch a deliberate sensitization campaign to this country.
Tanzania Tourist Board in collaboration with Pongo Safaris recently coordinated the Lights of Africa Media Expeditions in Tanzania which comprised of two journalists led by Mr Haroldo Castro, a veteran journalist and photographer specialized in nature and conservation, the other one is Mr Mikael Castro who is an anthropologist and ecotourism specialist.
During their expedition in Tanzania the journalists visited Serengeti National parks, Ngorongoro crater, Selous game reserve and Ruaha and then cross the border to Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa for the coverage of world cup tournament. While in Tanzania the journalists were feeding Brazilian Media organizations with stories on abundant tourists attractions Tanzania is endowed with, including a a bi-weekly column on EPOCA Magazine , bi-weekly English column on www.lightsofarica.com, EP and Global Televisions in Brazil
According to the available statistics Tanzania receives an average of 666 tourists from Brazil every year

Do's and Don'ts: Tanzania safaris

• Do read all you can about the safari experience before planning your trip. Your appreciation of the animals and culture will be greatly enhanced.
• Do plan to use a tour operator. Tanzanian regulations discourage "do it yourself" safaris. There are tour operators for every budget.
• Do be sure to ascertain exactly what is covered in a quoted fee such as airport transfers, use of their camping equipment, park entry fees, camping fees etc.
• Do be aware that a safari can be quite hectic. The smaller your group, the more flexibility you will have in setting your own pace.
• Do allow for the unexpected such as problems with your vehicle, changes in the weather and bugs. These are unavoidable so try to maintain a sense of humor.
• Do be generous with your tips. Many that serve you are hired by the job and their compensation is always low.

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Precision Air to extend wings abroad

Precision Air, a vibrant local private airline, envisages adding some international routes for it to realise its dream of becoming one of the biggest aviation companies in sub-Saharan Africa.  The airline will begin extending its wings  to most of the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Development Commission (SADC) member countries,  the airline’s chairman, Mr Michael Shirima, said.

The airline currently boasts of flying to Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya and to Entebbe in Uganda daily in addition to 12 local destinations.

Mr Shirima said the routes would expand hand in hand with the beefing up of local ownership of the airline whose shares would in the near future be up for grab at the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE).  He said the airline would see its local ownership rising to 66 per cent as opposed to the present local ownership of 51.  Mr Shirima said 15 per cent of the 49 per cent shares currently belonging to Kenya Airways would go to members of the public interested in investing in the airline with a promising future.   “The airline is proud of being among few  nascent African aviation firms operating  fleets of aircraft to provide safe, comfortable, fast and reliable aviation services,” he said. 

Precision Air dates back to 16 years ago when it acquired a five-seater charter plane, which was abandoned at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam for over a decade.  The airline had successfully repaired the charter plane to regain before it bought a second airworthy charter plane from another firm.  The firm has since then been tremendously growing to the extent of attracting a $129 million worth of a deal, which Precision Air signed with a French aircraft manufacturer,   Avions de Transport Régional - ATR,  in 2006 for the former to purchase seven aircrafts.     ATR has delivered five aircrafts and is expected to deliver the remaining two before the end of this year.

Precision Air, according to Mr Shirima, has so far employed 580 workers mostly being Tanzanians. Hardly one per cent of the airline workers currently are expatriates, he said.  The number of passengers and cargo too had tremendously been shooting  in tandem with the increasing number of destinations.  

    Precision Air is currently plying between Dar es Salaam and other local destinations namely Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Mwanza, Kigoma, Tabora, Musoma, Shinyanga and Mtwara regions.   Mr Shirima said the airline's marriage with Kenya Airways was compounded by the recent business trend in the airline industry, which called for  partnership, merger, code shares and alliances, citing Sky Team, Star and One World as typical examples.