TANZANIA (eTN) - Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has named his
former Ambassador to the United States of America and a prominent
lawyer, Mwanaidi Maajar, as the new head of the Board of Directors of
the famous Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania.
After her appointment to Chair the Board of Directors of the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, one among the leading natural
tourist attractive sites in Africa, Ms. Mwanaidi Maajar joined other
nature conservation policymakers on Monday this week.
Tanzania Minister for Tourism Lazaro Nyalandu flagged off the new
board whose major task is to advise the government of Tanzania on the
best practices in conservation of nature in the area, development of
tourism, and management of the conservation area as well.
Best known among prominent lawyers in Africa, Ms. Maajar, during her
official tour of duty in Washington, DC, has designed and tailored a
“Discover Tanzania VIP Safari” for a small group of business executives
from the United States to visit Tanzania every year.
The annual Discover Tanzania VIP Safari has been organized, guided,
and led by Ambassador Maajar herself, aimed at exposing Tanzania's
tourism and investment opportunities before American tourists and
investors.
Tanzania VIP Safari targets a section of prominent American business
executives, hoping to attract and encourage them to visit Tanzania as
tourists and invest their monies in tourism and other economic ventures.
The United States represents the largest single tourism market for
Tanzania, attracting a record high of 58,379 visitors, taking over from
the traditional place held by the UK market. Combined with Canada, the
number of visitors from North America reached 83,930 in recent years.
Ngorongoro is one among Tanzania’s leading attractive sites pulling
American tourists, and has been named a New Seven Natural Wonder of
Africa, supporting the greatest concentration of wildlife left on Earth.
The famous Ngorongoro Crater supports high densities of wildlife
throughout the year and contains the most visible population of black
rhinoceros remaining in Tanzania.
Two of the most important paleontological and archaeological sites in
the world - Olduvai Gorge and the Laetoli footprint site - are found
inside Ngorongoro, and further important discoveries may yet to be made
in the area.
It is one of the most-visited tourist destinations in Tanzania and,
as such, is an important economic resource to local residents and the
world.
The multiple-land-use system is one of the earliest to be established
world-wide and is emulated around the world as a means of reconciling
human development and natural resources conservation.
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