The Tourism industry continues to be one of the key foreign exchange earners in the country, resulting from the joint efforts by the Government and the private sector in promoting the industry and marketing the country as the quality nature destination. However, in order to sustain its development, availability of reliable information is necessary.

The Tourism industry continues to be one of the key foreign exchange earners in the country, resulting from the joint efforts by the Government and the private sector in promoting the industry and marketing the country as the quality nature destination. However, in order to sustain its development, availability of reliable information is necessary.

In view of this, five participating institutions namely, the Bank of Tanzania (BOT), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism (MNRT), Immigration Department and Zanzibar Commission for Tourism (ZCT) have been carrying out the International Visitors’ Exit Surveys since 2001.

One of the recommendations made in the 2001 survey report was to carry out shorter surveys on annual basis in order to obtain up-to-date price information. The 2005 survey was carried out in the months of August and September 2005 at four major exit points, the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA), Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA), Namanga (NAM) and Zanzibar Airport (ZAA).

OBJECTIVES OF THE SURVEY
The survey had two key objectives;

- Updating information on prices used for estimating tourist expenditure in the country; and
- Gathering information useful in promoting tourism and improve macro-economic policy.

Read Full report at link below

FULL REPORT at:
http://www.safarilands.org/docs/the-2005-tanzania-tourism-sector-survey.pdf





Source:http://www.bot-tz.org