Mwanza. Improved flight service to and from
Mwanza has relieved pains inflicted by the virtual collapse of
century-old railway services, a situation stakeholders claim will be
luring more investments in the tourism sector.
Since gaining city status some years back, Mwanza
City has been striving to enhance tourism and make it the area’s fourth
source of income after agriculture, fishing and livestock rearing.
Amadeus East Africa, one of the major players in the tourism sector,
claimed through its country manager, Mr Renatus Kyakalaba, that Mwanza
was fast advancing as an investment hub with the readily available air
transport spearheading its goal to become the busiest tourism hub in
west of Tanzania .
Mr Kyakalaba was speaking to tourism stakeholders in Mwanza during an occasion to mark the 10th year of Amadeus in East Africa.
Notable achievement Mwanza has attained in its
endeavour to turn into a tourist hub, according to Mr Kyakalaba, has
been in food industry, infrastructure, ventures in aviation projects,
training institutions, tour operations, travel agencies and marketing
organisations.
“With hotel occupancy rate of between 70 to 90 per
cent daily, Mwanza also provides excellent investment opportunities in
construction and management of hotels,” he noted.
For his part, the Tilapia Hotel director, Mr
Manjit Sandhu, lauded regional authorities for their efforts to boost
tourism and cited upgrading, Saanane Island into a National Park and
Mwanza Airport into an international-class flight hub as among the
notable achievements.
“The game reserve such as Saanane Island that
covers 95 hectares receives many tourists a year. Some of the tourists
of this game reserve are students, researchers from Europe and America
and local tourists,” he noted.
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