The "Karibu Travel and Tourism Fair" jointly organized by Tanzania Association of Tour Operators, Tanzania Tourist Board together with the Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism, is a three day International Travel and Tourism Fair which is held at Magereza open grounds Arusha Tanzania. The Fair has since grown into East Africa's biggest tourism event of the years. This event has been conducive to informal networking and getting to know each other better among all stakeholders on Tourism industry.

Who Will be There?
The organizers are inviting all companies and individuals who are involved in tourism in East Africa along with selected international travel trade journalists. Tanzanian tour agents and operators will be encouraged to arrange "familiarization trips" for their agents around the event in order that they can attend the show.

According to our records, participants includes Tour Operators, providers of accommodation facilities, air operators, operators of Adventure safaris-walking, beach, mountain climbing, scuba diving, sport fishing-large manufactures and general suppliers as well as smaller industries and handcraft groups, entertainment facilities.

What Are Karibu's Goals?
The overriding goal of Karibu Travel and Tourism Fair is not just organizing the "Fair", our role is that of relationship broker-identifying, targeting, attracting and matching the needs of buyers and suppliers. Also we aim at:-

• Bringing the whole of East Africa in one place, at one time.
• Allowing overseas tour agents to meet and network with members of the East African tourism industry.
• Bringing new destinations, facilities and products to the attention of overseas tour agents.
• Creating a single venue where the overseas tour agent can form new deals and partnerships in a short period of time.
• Allowing overseas tour agents to visit the national parks and properties.
• Generating direct spending on local hotels, restaurants and transport
• Creating employment -directly and indirectly by assisting development of small and medium enterprises.
• Raising the City/Regional profile
• Doing this at affordable rates in order to support many of the smaller operators who cannot afford to travel to international trade events.