National finals of Miss Tourism Tanzania Tournament 2012/13, which are to be held on 17 March 2013 in the palace of Dar Live Dar es Salaam, have postponed to 30th of March, 2013, the venue will be announced later.
Speaking to reporters in Dar es Salaam, President of competition in the African continent Erastus G. Chipungahelo, said that the reasons for the postponement of the final include budget shortfalls caused by some sponsors bosses who fail to fulfill their commitments as they promised, leading to a decrease of more than 170,000,000/= Tshs, between 870,000,000/= Tshs budget required to complete the final tournament.
"To make this competition excellence and of the international level, we need not less than Shs 870 million, of which up to now we have managed to get a total of Shs 600 million, and we miss the total of Shs 170 million, which is caused by some of the trustees fail to fulfill their commitments due to various commercial problems they face. This competition as it is in other competitions and the World rely on sponsorship from the private and public sectors, as the costs of budget for preparing these competitions are great that can not be paid or compensated for entries depending at the gates ".
This situation has forced us to postpone finals 30-3-2013, to find time to get the same amount of money and complete preparations so as to make it of the quality and international standards.
Procedures to get money close to completion before the date of the competition from the tourism stakeholders in the private and public sectors are about to be done.
Camp participants continues at Ikondelelo Lodge hotel in Dar es Salaam, where from Tuesday on 19-3-2013, all participants accompanied by the reporters, they will began a tour of one week in Mikumi, Udzungwa and Saadani National Park.
In Udzungwa, the participants will be climbing mountains of Udzungwa to the top of Nsanje Waterfalls which is the major attraction in the park.
Source: Miss Tourism Organization
