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CULTURAL TOURS
The idea behind
cultural tourism in Tanzania is to give tourists and local
communities an opportunity to interact, with particular
emphasis on giving the tourists brief but valuable insights
into the life-styles of some of Tanzania's fascinating
peoples, without too much negative impact. And at the same
time to provide the communities themselves with a share of
the monetary and material benefits that tourism brings.
The cultural
programme was largely inspired and developed by a Dutch
organization know as SNV. When properly conducted and
managed it allows local people such as the Maasai, Datoga,
Hadza, Iraqw, Pare, Sambaa and others to show tourists
something of their ways of life, including their homes,
areas of work such as agriculture, farming, pastoralism,
hunter-gathering and fishing.
Income from these
cultural visits is used by the groups involved for
particular development projects, such as the building of
dispensaries or clinics, water supplies or cattle-dip
facilities.
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