Tanzania: Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) to increase rates on 01 July 2013

Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA), the public organisation with the mandate of managing all areas designated as national parks in Tanzania, has revised tariffs across fifteen Tanzanian National Parks, such as Serengeti National Park and Tarangire National Park.
The new increased rates cover not only the regular park entrance fees for Non East African citizens (USD$) and East Africa citizens (TSHS), but also a range of other services such as professional filming fees and fees for walking safaris, night game drives, canoeing, among others. TANAPA also renamed the park entry fee to "conservation fee". The new tariffs will be effective from 01 July 2013 until 30 June 2015.

As major reasons for the park fee changes, Tanapa names the following:

• To cater for the general increase in price levels of most commodities and services that has
• continued to escalate hence increasing operational costs for the organization.
• Improve tourism facilities and infrastructure such as roads, bridges and airstrips, to cater for increased number of visitors and diversify tourism activities in order to provide outstanding visitor experience.
• Improvement of staff incentives and packages to cope with increased cost of living.

TANAPA's new visitor rates (pdf) >>

Tanzania: Lake Manyara National Park area severely affected by heavy rains

According to a press release, issued by Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA), the road linking Arusha and the Manyara Region in Tanzania was severely affected and hence left tourists and other passengers stranded as the road was rendered impassable either way.
Various infrastructures in the Lake Manyara National Park also got damaged, but work is underway to restore the situation back to normal. The park was planned to be re-opened by the 03 April 2013 and should be open to tourists by now (05 April 2013).


View Larger Map

Tanzania: Tanzania National Parks (Tanapa) revises tariffs

Tanzania National Parks (Tanapa), the public organisation with the mandate of managing all areas designated as National Parks in Tanzania, has revised tariffs across fifteen Tanzanian National Parks, such as Serengeti National Park and Tarangire National Park. Tanapa also renamed the park entry fee to "conservation fee".
The new tariffs will be effective as of 01 July 2013. According to a statement by the management of Tanzania National Parks, the changes to the currently existing tariffs needed to be done in order to meet the general increase in price levels of most commodities and services, as well as to improve the infrastructure such as roads, bridges and airstrips, to cater for the increased number of visitors and to diversify tourism facilities.

Park Fee changes from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2015 (PDF file) >>