COMMUNITY TOURISM IN NYERERE PARK: Nyerere national park is the largest national park in Tanzania located in the South East of the country adjacent to Selous game reserve from which it was curved in 2019.
Community tourism in Nyerere Park involves the Maasai tribal people in the conservation programs and benefits of tourism activities in and around the park.
Village Involvement and Employment in Nyerere national park
Tour guiding, importance of conservation, hospitality and animal tracking. This has created employment opportunities for the Maasai people working in the safari lodge and camps, tour guides, drivers and park rangers.
Community tourism has helped promote the craftmanship of the Maasai people. Encouraged the sale of the Maasai handmade crafts as gifts and souvenirs to the visitors who visit the local communities.
Cultural tours to Maasai communities
- This is a 1 hour visit to any of the neighboring local communities of Nyerere national park.
- The visitors get to interact with the locals. In so doing they get a better understanding of the ways of living of the Maasai.
- The locals get to entertain the visitors through traditional dances, folk tales and songs.
- The visitors get to visit the Maasai Bomas. That is the homesteads of the Maasai.
- The fees for the cultural tours to the Maasai communities. Thus benefiting the local communities which has helped in improving and developing the different communities.
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