13% Increase in Tourism Receipts from 2024 to 2025

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• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Tourism has been identified as one of the transformative sectors with the potential to help realise the goals and targets of the Tanzania National Development Vision 2050, as it can claim a lion’s share as a key.