TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS - PRESS RELEASE

TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS

PRESS RELEASE

AMERICAN BILLIONAIRE HOWARD BUFFET IN SERENGETI AND NGORONGORO

An American Billionaire Howard Buffett is visiting Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater for a three days holiday after he was very much impressed by Tanzanian tourist attractions when he visited the country last month.

During his last visit in the country in March this year, Howard Buffett who has a passion on conservation matters through his Howard Buffett Foundation donated two helicopters to Tanzanian Government to be used for anti-poaching activities in the protected areas.

At the Kilimanjaro International Airport, Buffett who is accompanied by his wife was received by his host the Minister for Natural
Resources and Tourism Hon. Lazaro Nyalandu.

Issued by the Corporate Communications Department
Tanzania National Parks
9th April, 2014

Howard Buffett received by his host Minister for Natural Resources
and Tourism Hon. Lazaro Nyalandu.

Source: www.tanzaniatouristboard.com

TANZANIA ATTRACTS MORE HIGH PROFILE BUSINESSMEN FROM USA

In effort to promote Tanzania as a tourist Destination in US market, Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) in collaboration with CNBC TV organized a press trip for two Television Producers to join 42 US Businessmen who visited the country from March 28th - April 1st, 2014.

CNBC is an American basic cable and satellite business news television channel that is owned by the CNBC Universal. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers around the world. CNBC is available to approximately 96,242,000 pay television household in the United States.

The Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Hon. Lazaro Nyalandu holds

talks with the Founder of Abercombie & Kent, Mr. Geoffrey Kent in VIP lounge

at Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA)

The TV crew will produce special program on Tanzania which will be shown to the CNBC stations all over the world to promote Tanzania Tourism Destination. This crew visited Serengeti National Parks.

The Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Hon. Lazaro Nyalandu speaks to the group of high profile businessmen at Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) before their departure.

During their departure at KIA, the group met with the Minister of Natural Resources and tourism, Hon. Lazaro Nyarandu and other officials for Tanzania Tourist Board, Tanzania National Parks and officials from Abercombie & Kent-Tanzania branch.

Hon. Nyarandu Said “In order to reach our target, the government intends to attract more tourists groups to use private jets as well as tourists’ buses to visit Tanzania”.

The tourists arrived in KIA by Boeing BBJ 737 HB-110 owned by Abercombie & Kent 

source: www.tanzaniatouristboard.com/blog

ABOUT TANZANIA

Lying just south of the equator, Tanzania is east Africa largest country and immensely rewarding place to visit. Filling the brochures are several world famous attractions: the planes of the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, snow capped Mount Kilimanjaro (African’s highest mountain) and Zanzibar, with its idyllic palm-fringed beaches and historic Stone town. Yet there’s whole lot more to Tanzania than these obvious highlights. Almost  everywhere  you  go you‘ll find interesting wildlife and inspiring landscapes (over forty percent of the country is protected  in some form or other ) ranging from forest –covered volcanic peaks to dusty savanna populated by elephants, antelopes lions, leopards, and cheetahs. Tanzania is one of the four most naturally diverse nations on earth: it contains African’s second –largest number of birds species (around 1500), the continent’s biggest mammal population and three-quarters of East Africa’s plant species (over ten thousand). Add to this the country’s rich ethnic diversity, some superb hiking and other activities like snorkeling and diving, and you have the makings of a holiday of a life time.

For all its natural diversity, Tanzania’s best asset is its people: friendly, welcoming, unassumingly proud and yet reserved –you’ll be treated with uncommon warmth and courtesy wherever you go, and genuine friendship are easily made. The best known tribe are Maasai, the pastoralist cattle-herding people who inhabit the region around the safari parks in the north, yet there are at least 127 tribes in Tanzania, perhaps not as visually colourfully as the red robed, spear-caring Maasai warriors, but with equally reach traditions, histories, customs, beliefs and music, much of which survive despite the ravages of colonialism, modernity and Christianity. For many years, only those with months on their hands had the privilege of really getting to know these people, but since 1995, an award-winning cultural tourism programme has broken new ground in enabling tourist, even those with little time or limited budget, to experience for themselves local life in an intimate and inevitable fascinating way.   

Source: The Rough Guide to Tanzania
www.roughguides.com