Tanzania Cultural Tourism Supporters

Currently there are three main partners pushing the Cultural Tourism initiative i.e. Tanzania Tourist Board through its Cultural tourism Programme Unit in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism with support from other support organizations such as
United Nations-World Tourism Organization Sustainable Tourism-Eliminating Poverty ((UNWTO ST-EP) foundation, Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF)-Cluster Competitiveness Programme (CCP), Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO-UN) and Centre for Development of Enterprises (CDE). In different times CTP was supported by The Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN-NL).

The Cultural Tourism Programme gives visitors to Tanzania the chance to tour tribal areas to meet the people and experience their traditional way of life. Through the programmes, visitors also experience indigenous attractions and scenery of rural Tanzania.

It is a rewarding experience to leave the safari-car behind and climb the mountains of the agricultural tribes of northern Tanzania to see how coffee is grown by subsistence farmers or to walk across the plains to explore the rich traditions of the pastoral tribes whose culture is closely linked to nature and wildlife.

Still the visitor can follow the drumbeats and let the tribal dancers of southern Tanzania interpret the music and performances the tribes have inherited from their ancestors, or just go to the coast to sense the history of the Swahili people of coastal Tanzania.

And for the visitors who want to meet fishermen, cultivators, local minors, wildlife scouts, rainmakers and story-tellers, the land between Serengeti and Lake Victoria is the place to be.

There is more in the cultural tourism programmes of Tanzania!