Tanzania: Obstacles to Food Tourism Development in Tanzania

14 March 2019

I was reading some texts on history a few days back and one of the new things I learned were that some trading centers along the slave trade and explorer caravan routes were established and grew to become very prosperous up to the present times because they were supplying abundant food to these travelers.

Places like Arusha, Tabora, Mpwawa, Bagamoyo, Zanzibar, and Masasi among others were some of the food supply centers, and also stopovers, for the travelers to "refuel." It was food that attracted the travelers, but why are we not now using these same gastronomic attractions to establish and strengthen a tourist segment that I know could prove to be beneficial to both local farmers and traders on the one side and, on the other side, to be quite an experience for domestic and international travelers.

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