Tourism Revenue Growth of 13% in 2025

TLDR

• Presenting her ministry’s revenue and expenditure estimates for the 2026/27 financial year in Parliament in Dodoma on May 15 this year, Dr Kijaji said the government had constructed and rehabilitated 3,757.92 kilometres.
• The latest International Visitors’ Exit Survey (IVES) 2025 indicates that the country’s tourism industry generated a record $4.41 billion (about 11.598 trillion shillings) in 2025, as higher visitor spending outpaced.
• Opening a stakeholders’ consultative meeting on the draft Five-Year Strategic Plan (2026/27–2030/31) in the capital recently, the Deputy Permanent Secretary responsible for the tourism sector in the Ministry of Natural.
• The survey highlighted that tourism receipts rose by 13 per cent from $3.90 billion in 2024, while international arrivals increased by 7.1 per cent to 2,294,495 visitors from 2,141,895 the previous year.
• The stronger growth in earnings than arrivals reflects higher average spending by international visitors, which climbed by 19 per cent to $289 per person per night, up from $243 in 2024 in Mainland Tanzania.