Why Tanzania’s Target to attract 8m Tourists is Viable

One region alone already has garnered about 1.7 million tourist arrivals this fiscal year.

October 9, 2025

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THURSDAY October 9, 2025

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan is optimistic her administration, if elected, will be capable of attracting 8 million tourists a year by 2030. PHOTOS | COURTESY

By Mussa Juma

The Tranquility News Correspondent, Tanzania

The number of enthusiasts visiting tourist sites in Manyara Region has been surging year in year out lately, keeping alive the Tanzania’s pipe dream of attracting 8 million tourists come 2030.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan told a campaign rally in Babati township recently that over 1.7 million tourists had visited the region this year alone – a significant contribution to the national target of drawing at least 5.3 million toward end of the year.

“The goal of the CCM Manifesto, if elected, is to reach 8 million tourists in the next five years,” said Dr Samia, explaining that the tourists’ influx would create between 1.5 and three million jobs during the period.

She pledged that her administration would, in addition to promoting tourist sites, devise strategies for ending human-wildlife conflicts mostly compounded by climate change driving human activities to protected areas.

The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi national Chairman and presidential candidate is zooming around one region after another in search for votes.

Potential voters antentively listed at the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi presidential candidate and incumbent Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan (not in picture) in Babati township, Manyara Region, Tanzania.

Her administration, she added, would also identify redundant wheat fields in Hanang’ District in the region to return them to members of the Barbeig community.

She said members of the community had migrated elsewhere countrywide in search for livestock pasture, compelling some of them to encroach on protected areas, further fueling the human-wildlife conflicts.

The increasing in tourist arrivals in the region was, indeed, reflected at the World Travel Awards for Africa (WTA) and the Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony 2025 in Dar es Salaam.

Tanzania hosted the ceremony for the first time since its inception in 1993, involving national parks, the world tourism industry and investors in the sector.

Chem Chem Safari Lodge – sandwiched nestled within Burungue Wildlife Management Area that is sandwiched by Tarangire and Lake Manyara national parks in Babari District also in the region – bagged two trophies.

Jorg Weytjens (Centre), Chem Chem Safari Lodge Operations Manager, attributes victory of the lodge to cooperation among staff and with the surrounding community, the government, and other travel, tourism, and hospitality industry players. the dream of our founders, while lodge Manager Elizabeth Wambui (Left) ascribes it to founders Fabia Bausch and Nicolaus Negre’s quality service dream, and Chief Chef Jimmy Ngira to quality cuisines the lodge offers tourists. PHOTOS | FILE.

The stylish and secluded five-star hotel from where the ‘Slow Safari’ model was curated for a lifetime experience has been accommodating world-renowned guests, making it emerge the winner in categories of the WTA awards, namely The Best Luxurious Lodge in Tanzania and The Best Luxurious Lodge in AfricaΩ