Wildlife Safari Tourist Destinations in Tanzania: Experiences from Colonial to Post-Colonial Era

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Tanzania is currently one of the world's most visited countries for wildlifetourism, but its main destinations are at risk from changes in climate and localland-use. The consequences of these changes on tourism demand are,however, unclear. Despite Tanzania's two centuries of experience withwildlife tourism, the trends in Tanzania s wildlife tourism demand are poorlyunderstood. Insights into past, current and future tourists motivations andpreferences are thus vitally important to successfully manage wildlife safaritourist destinations and tourism. This study aims to document and explain thedevelopments in tourist motivations and preferences since the early 19thcentury. Changes in motivation and preferences, and the consequent wildliferesource utilization are analysed. These study recapitulates two centuries ofwildlife resources governance. Wildlife resource uses in Tanzanian protectedareas vary historically from exploration and discovery, ivory collection,hunting for trophies, safaris and nature conservation. These different purposesin different periods are summarised in an annotated map of the evolution anddistribution of Tanzanian tourist destinations. The results are relevant forspatial planning and wildlife conservation in relation to tourism. Additionally,the map provides building blocks to develop exploratory scenarios to copewith the current climate and land-use change risks

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