Records shows that about 115,009 visitors, from within and outside the country, have toured at the Morogoro – based famous natural preserve from July 2024 to January 30, 2025, enabling it to collect over 6.4bn/- .
MOROGORO. A group of a total of 261 foreign visitors has jetted into the country for a special visit to Mikumi National Park.
The visitors arrived on earlier Tuesday this week in Tanzania Mainland all the way from Zanzibar through the well developed travel system between the management of Mikumi National Park and the famous archipelago of Zanzibar.
Upon their arrival the tourists got the direct opportunity to visit the Morogoro- based national park to see the eye- catching touristic attractions in the area.
Speaking with the publication during the arrival of the visitors, the Mikumi National Park Assistant Conservation Commissioner, Mr. Augustine George Massesa observed that the areas is increasingly becoming a hub for safari tourism, offering a unique combination of ease of access and close-up experiences with wildlife in their natural habitat.
“We’re very thankful to the government for rolling out enough money to support several projects for the facelift of the key infrastructures at the park,” he said.
He noted that the park had received at least 37bn/-, the amount which is currently being spent to facilitate implementation of project for the expansion of the park’s airstrip, ‘Kikoboga Airstrip.
“This project incorporate expansion of running way, construction of Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Building, as well as aircraft aprone,” he stated.
Moreover, he added that he country’s confirmed wildlife sighting hotspot which now receives over 1000 visitors in a day, is also implementing two strategic projects to help facelifting visitor’s basic amenities and transportation infrastructure.
Records shows that about 115,009 visitors, from within and outside the country, have toured at the Morogoro – based famous natural preserve from July 2024 to January 30, 2025, enabling it to collect over 6.4bn/- .
The collected amount stands at over 89 percent of the revenue collection target which was set for this year, which is at least 6.8bn/-.
In further efforts to make Mikumi National Park a major hotspot for the travel industry in Tanzania, Commissioner Massesa said they have have opened a friendly window for the stakeholders in the private sector to chip in and invest into the country’s popular vast National Park which occupies a total of 300km to the West of Dar es salaam along the Dar-Mbeya highway.
“Some investors have already extending their investment foothold into the Park, but more investment is highly needed, especially in the side of accommodation structures for sheltering tourists, ” he said.
Because of its accessibility Mikumi is one of the most popular National Park in Tanzania, and the Natural Preserve is decorated by its superbly scenic plains and baobabs, making it a comfortable home to various wild animals and birds species.
The park, mapped between the Uluguru Mountains and the Lumango is endowed with spectacular concentration of wildlife which are rarely seen in other parks like magnificent Sable antelope, African hunting dog, blue wildebeest, Lichtenstein’s hartebeest and others.
The gentle foothills and vast miombo woodland savanna in the southern parts of the park are quite spectacular.
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