South Africa: New increased tariffs at Mpumalanga's Nature Reserves!

The Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (MTPA) has announced that it will increase entry and accommodation fees at its various nature reserves in Mpumalanga from 01 November 2017. These include the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve, Manyeleti Nature Reserve, Ohrigstad Nature Reserve, Andover Nature Reserve, Sterkspruit Nature Reserve, Songimvelo Nature Reserve, Nooitgedacht Dam Nature Reserve, Verloren Vallei Nature Reserve, Loskop Nature Reserve, Mabusa Nature Reserve, Mdala Nature Reserve, SS Skosana Nature Reserve and Mkhombo Dam Nature Reserve. All tarifs will be adjusted upwards by a small margin and continue to be charged in South African Rand (ZAR).

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The Mpumalanga Tourism & Parks Agency (MTPA) has the mandate of positioning Mpumalanga as the world class tourism destination through providing an integrated tourism and biodiversity conservation management system in order to stimulate sustainable economic growth in the province.

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) >>

Kenya: New National Park fees from 01 Jan 2012

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), the custodian of Kenya's national parks, announced already back in September 2011 that it will increase the tariffs for the countries National Parks, but they are only now coming into effect.
As of 01 Jan 2012, foreign visitors to Kenya's so-called Premium Parks, Amboseli NP & Lake Nakuru NP, will have to pay a conservation fee of US$80/person per day (2011: low season US$60/person; high season US$75/person) as a flat rate charged throughout the year.
Visits to parks not designated as premium parks, such as Tsavo East NP, Tsavo West NP & Meru NP, will from 01 Jan 2012 have to pay a daily fee of US$65/person.
Pls download (pdf) the complete list of park conservation fees in 2012 for more information.

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) increased fees for some National Parks

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), the custodian of Kenya's national parks, has again increased the daily (foreign) visitor fee for the so-called "premium parks" Amboseli and Lake Nakuru to US$80/person as a flat rate charged throughout the year with immediate effect.
Foreign visitors used to pay US$60 during low season at the premium parks and US$75  during the peak seasons (January to March, July to October).
According to Kenya's Forestry and Wildlife minister Noah Wekesa, the increase had to be done to meet KWS' conservation obligations, to boost the conservation efforts and reduce the service's dependence on the government.

Beside the "premium parks" Amboseli and Lake Nakuru, the tariffs for the so-called "wilderness parks", namely Tsavo East, Tsavo West & Meru, also got increased. All other 47 parks managed by KWS are not affected. Kenyans will continue paying Sh500 at premium parks and Sh300 in all others.

Kenya: fee increase at National Parks during high season

Kenya Wildlife Service has increased the entry fees for various National Parks and Reserves across Kenya. The new rates, valid since 01 Jan 2011, are mainly affecting foreigners visiting Lake Nakuru, Tsavo East, Tsavo West, Amboseli and Meru. The new fees will apply during the high season months of January, February, March, July, August, September and October.

• Lake Nakuru from US$60 to US$75
• Amboseli from US$60 to US$75
• Tsavo East from US$50 to US$60
• Tsavo West from US$50 to US$60
• Meru rised from US$50 to US$60

The name of the charges has also been changed from "park entry fees" to "conservation fees" to reflect that visitors to national parks are contributing to conservation and the continued survival of wildlife and their habitats for generations to come.

More info about the new fees can be found in the 2011 entry fee leaflet (pdf) and in the overview on coservation fees Jan - Dec 2011 (pdf).