Friday, 16 November 2018

Air Tanzania plans direct flight launch to Guangzhou in February 2019

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                 / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals


The first Tanzania Tourism Board road show in Asia, 2018 Tanzania Tourism Roadshow, is held in Guangzhou on 14 November 2018. At the road show, Tanzania Tourism Board revealed that Air Tanzania plans to launch its first direct Dreamliner flight to Guangzhou from Dar Es Salaam, the capital city of Tanzania, in February 2019.

The roadshow is hosted by the Tanzania Tourism Board and the Embassy of the United Republic of Tanzania in China and hosted by the Guangdong Tourism Planning and Marketing Association.

16 companies including Air Tanzania and Tanzania National Park made tourism promotion and conducted B2B business negotiations with more than 60 travel agency companies at the roadshow in Guangdong.

Air Tanzania will announce the detailed flight schedules of the Dar Es Salaam - Guangzhou route by January 2019.

According to reports, China is currently the eighth largest source of tourists for Tanzania's tourism. In 2017, there were about 30,000 Chinese tourists visiting Tanzania. The Tanzanian side hopes to attract more Chinese tourists to Tanzania for sightseeing through this roadshow and Air Tanzania's long-haul flight launch.

Tanzanian Tourism Board President Gaji Thomas Mijayo said that Tanzania will do its utmost to provide high-quality services to Chinese tourists, and cooperation in tourism will surely achieve a win-win situation.

Mei Qijie, a member of the Party Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, said that although China and Tanzania are separated by mountains and rivers, the friendship between the two peoples goes back to ancient times. In recent years, as one of the starting points of China's Maritime Silk Road, Guangdong has fully implemented the “Belt and Road Initiative” and pragmatically promoted exchanges and cooperation with Tanzania in the fields of economy, trade, tourism and culture. At present, Guangdong is fully promoting the green development strategy. Tanzania's experience in natural resource protection and national park planning and construction is worth learning from. He suggested working with Tanzania to strengthen cooperation in tourism propaganda, industrial cooperation and tourism security, and work together to promote tourism culture cooperation between the two countries to a new level.

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