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| Pride of lion in the Serengeti National Park |
Arusha — NEARLY 100 top billionaires from
Europe and the United States have completed their Tanzanian leg of
African tour, describing the country's second largest national park,
Serengeti, as exemplary.
The second of the two groups of foreign tycoons, brought here through
the Abercrombie & Kent Safari Company, were seen off at the
Kilimanjaro International Airport on Tuesday by the Minister for Natural
Resources and Tourism, Mr Lazaro Nyalandu.
The team consisted of 42 affluent tourists. "Our next target in
tourism is ensuring that wealth personalities from developed countries
come in large numbers to visit Tanzanian attractions, in order to boost
the country's earnings," explained Mr Nyalandu, adding the industry
generated over US $ 1.7 million last year.
The Group Chairman of Abercrombie & Kent, Mr Geoffrey Kent stated that his company was committed to promote Tanzania, but especially the Serengeti National Park abroad because the country is essentially the only remaining area on the continent with truly preserved natural environment and wildlife.
A & K arranged to have the world billionaires come in two phases
each comprising 42 people flying aboard a special Boeing 737 Business
Jet.
The first team was here two-weeks ago in the continental tours taking
off from Rome, Italy and then covering Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda,
Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and South-Africa.
It seems like their Tanzanian experience was good and the
billionaires now intend to have more similar trips in future. Each of
the two teams spent four days in the Northern Circuit making a total of
84 visitors who sampled the country's tourism within just a fortnight.
Tanzania on the other hand targets to attract two million tourists
per year by 2015. The country received more than 1 million visitors last
year, according to the tourism minister who pointed out that the
industry pumps in 17 per cent of national revenues.
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