TZ tour guides set for 3 week strike
Tanzania Tour Guides Association will lead countrywide strike until their demands are met.
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The strike will be spearheaded by members of the Tanzania Tour Guides Association (TTGA), who have reported the main cause as unfavourable working conditions, the lack of improved welfare for tour workers and the lack of initiative to boost the tour business sector by the government.
Moshi. Tanzania's tourism sector is set to suffer a blow as tour guides and porters plan a three week countrywide strike.
The strike will be spearheaded by members of the Tanzania Tour Guides Association (TTGA), who have reported the main causes for the strike as unfavourable working conditions, the lack of improved welfare for tour workers and the lack of initiative to boost the tour business sector by the government.
TTGA chairperson for Kilimanjaro region Johnson Sadock said:
“We forwarded our grievances to the relevant authorities way back in 2013 but without any positive response. During a meeting of tourism stakeholders on August 5th, it was agreed that our demands be sorted out within 60 days”. This has not been the case."
The secretary of the Kilimanjaro Guides Association (KGA) James Mong’ateko added that the strike is legitimate asking why it was easy to raise money for Miss Kilimanjaro beauty pageants but has been difficult for the ministry and the institutions under it to mobilise funds to boost the tour business which contributes much to the national economy.
