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Article: Rising on a warm current. (tourism) (Special Focus: Tanzania)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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Tanzania's wealth of tourist attractions have remained largely untapped, and yet they make neighbouring countries pale in comparison. According to Mbarouk Mwandoro, Director General of the Board of External Trade, some neighbours have gone to the extent of promoting tourist attractions which are geographically located in Tanzania to attract more tourists to their own countries.
But with the liberalisation of the economy, government policy is now to encourage private investment to the industry through both local business and joint ventures with foreigners. Tanzania's investment promotion Centre (IPC) has recently approved 93 projects in the tourism sector. Harish ...