TANZANIA (eTN) - Tanzania is looking to attract Belgian tourists
and investors in prime attractive areas, including the rich historical
town of Bagamoyo along the Indian Ocean coast.
Tanzanian Ambassador to Belgium, Dr. Deodorus Kamala, had led a group
of Belgian investors in a fact-finding mission aimed at exploring areas
of tourist visiting and investment.
In their recent trip to Tanzania, Belgian investors visited the
upcoming tourist town of Bagamoyo, best known by its slave trade history
dating back during the 17th and 19th centuries.
Bagamoyo is a historical town with building architecture inspired by African, Swahili, Arab, Indian, and European cultures.
The most-visited landmarks are Caravan Serai, the old German
administrative building, the first Post Office in East Africa, the Arab
Fort, Arab Tea House, the Kaizer Street lined up by buildings with
highly-decorated doors, and the first Roman Catholic Church building in
Tanzania.
Caravan Serai has an exhibition which provides useful information on
Bagamoyo’s tourist attractions, history and cultures, outstanding
monuments, ivory and slave trade, and places of memory associated with
slave trade and slavery in East and Central Africa.
Bagamoyo played various historical roles in Tanzania. Apart from
being a slave and ivory port, it was also a German headquarters in 1891.
Belgium is a source of about 11,000 tourists visiting Tanzania every
year, while Tanzanian tourist business stakeholders take part in an
annual tourism exhibition held in Brussels.
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