Impacts of Tourism Activities on the Livelihoods Communities Living Adjacent to Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.

Mshana, Rasmina Khatibu (2023) Impacts of Tourism Activities on the Livelihoods Communities Living Adjacent to Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study assessed the impacts of tourism activities on the livelihoods of communities living adjacent to Tarangire National Park. The study was conducted to communities living adjacent to Tarangire National Park in Manyara Region. This study was guided by three specific objectives: to identify the impacts of tourism activities on the livelihoods of local communities, to determine challenges facing local communities participating in tourism activities and to identify measure deployed to address challenges facing local communities to participate in tourism activities in the study area. The sample size of this study was 211. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were employed to select samples. Primary and secondary data were collected using questionnaires, interviews, observations and documentary literature review. SPSS software version 20.0was used to analyze quantitative data while qualitative data were analyses using content analysis. The study findings revealed that, impacts of tourism activities on the community’s livelihoods included competition for land with other economic uses, social stress and cultures clashes and improvement of the standard of life. Also the study findings revealed that, the challenges facing local people participating in tourism activities included unemployment problem, negative perception towards tourism activities and low level of education. Furthermore, this study recommended appropriate strategies to reduce the challenges among others which include increase employment opportunities through tourism, improve outreach program, empowerment of local people, increase awareness and education to local people, community involvement and participation of local people in tourism activities. Keywords: Livelihoods, Local communities, Tarangire National Park, Tourism activities.

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