By Apolinari Tairo
Published May 23, 2020
Tourists planning for wildlife safari in Tanzania and East Africa can now view the Great Wildebeest Migration through live-stream digital media outlets across the world.
Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) haS partnered with key tourist players to launch a digital media platform that live-streams three episodes of wildebeest migration every weekend.
Complementing the 30-part Serengeti Show Live series, TTB shares news from Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa, where mountain crews capture views from Uhuru Peak summit. The tropical Spice Island of Zanzibar shares visuals.
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“We wish to assure tourists that after this crisis we will be waiting to welcome them to Tanzania for an Unforgettable Experience,” says Devota Mdachi, Managing Director of Tanzania Tourist Board.
Mdachi says Tanzania Tourist Board, in collaboration with the Serengeti Show Live team, are airing the event using all digital media outlets globally.
“As we wait for a time when the world will open up again for travel, we are putting in place recovery strategies to ensure destination Tanzania remains a preferred choice in the minds of prospective tourists,” Mdachi says.
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For anyone dreaming of the world and its wonders during lockdown, the Serengeti Show Live has set out on a mission to bring positive news, beautiful views, natural spaces and the wildlife of Africa to screens across the world.
Each show is expected to feature game drives with wildlife sightings, great migration updates and interesting, facts about Tanzania and life in the bush.
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The Kids Corner is a fun and interactive segment of the programme to entertain the little ones, who stand to win a family holiday, and in doing so, hopefully, create a generation of naturalists and conservationists to care for our planet.
The great migration of wildebeest and iconic African animals like lions and elephants are a draw card for tourists visiting the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
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About 17.2 percent of GDP in Tanzania is generated by tourism and the National Parks rely heavily on income generated from the tourism sector.
Parks are struggling to operate with reduced revenue and the wildlife economy is bound to be affected and protecting biodiversity from illegal bush meat harvesting may rise as poverty increases and food becomes scarce due to the COVID-19 disruption of livelihoods.
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