THE BIG BREAK THROGH BETWEEN THE EAST AFRICA COMMUNITY ABOUT THE INTERNATIONALTRADE AND TOURISM

Timing and positioning are everything when itSafaris” to help promote these region as it will
comes to opportunity. Getting out in front of bigturn out to be a good venture in business.
trends in the early stages is where the realTo the travelers, it will be the best opportunity to
fortunes are made.  It is a great achievementexperienced cultural safaris in East Africa, gorilla
that has been made between the East Africansafari in Uganda, birding safaris in greater East
Community by allowing people to trade withoutAfrica from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, wildlife
any obligations. We us Tour Operators, we wouldsafaris in both countries, beach holidays in the
like to tell the travelers that It is time to tour thecoastal region of Kenya and Zanzibar in Tanzania,
three countries at an affordable rate since thereclimbing the two greater mountains of Africa that
will be no brokerage from one Company to theis Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya, rural/culture
other.tourism and many more not to mention.
Tourists touring the five East African CommunityThe one thing you must visit when you happen to
countries will now have a common visa to travelbe in this region is Nairobi National Park, a national
without spending any further coin to buy visa atpark, that survives in the center of an up and
every border cross. East African Communitycoming (or so they say) city. This park is very
minister Amason Kingi said the integration ofspecial, unlike most small parks, it is not fenced
immigrations departments in Kenya, Rwanda,off, and therefore, animals are free to come and
Tanzania, Burundi, and Uganda would open up thego, so the park is very seasonal.
region. “A common visa would enable touristsNational parks; well you will never be stuck for
to travel the countries with ease. This will resultchoice. Game parks- the ones where you go to
into an unrivalled wide safari package and holidaywatch the animals are tourist traps. Watch out
vacations for our region and pool tourists to thefor Amboseli (on the border with Tanzania approx.
hub,” he added.8hrs drive over potholed roads from Nairobi),
Residents of the member countries would alsobeing very small, you are guaranteed to see
cross the borders to carry out business for theanimals, if you can see past the hoards of tourist
benefit of their individual countries and the region,vans watching as well!
“We want to market East Africa as a singleWondering what kind of business model would
tourism safaris package as opposed to thework for us. It can be seen that there is a
current scenario in which individual countries aretremendous interest in this kind of tourism in this
marketing themselves,” And therefore it isregion, so thought of just putting in a thought
my pleasure to welcome anybody who would likeprocess and seeking solutions, mainly on attracting
to join hands with us “Claudious Tours andforeign tourists in OUR REGION.