Tanzania: Tourism Tops Tanzania Foreign Exchange Receipts in 2018

Dar es Salaam — Tourism sector was the main contributor of foreign exchange receipts by the country in the year to December 2018, a Bank of Tanzania (BoT) report has revealed. In the BoT Monthly Economic Review (MER) report for the year ending December 2018, travel earnings (dominated by tourism) increased due to a rise in the number of tourist arrivals.

The earnings reached $2.44 billion from $2.25 billion tabled in the same period the previous year.

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