This report was prepared by the AFTFP Tourism Team led by Tourism Senior Private Sector Specialist, Hannah Messerli, and Lead Economist, Vincent Palmade. Tourism experts
Louise Twining-Ward and Iain T. Christie were the main authors, aided by contributions from Eneida Fernandes and Tugba Gurcanlar.
This report synthesizes the results from the following studies: 24 country case studies completed by Iain T. Christie and Anna Spenceley, Africa hotel sector (Ernst and Young),
Africa air transportation sector (SH&E), Tour Operator sector, the World Bank Africa tourism strategy, and the tourism country database (Louise Twining-Ward). These underlying
studies can be found on the following website: http://www.worldbank.org/afr/tourism.
This work has been made possible through the generosity of committed donors. More than two years of sector specific research and analysis has been supported by the MultiDonor Trust Fund for Trade and Development contributed to by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Department for Foreign and International
Development of the United Kingdom (DFID-UK), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).
The Trade
Facilitation Facility, funded by SIDA, DFID-UK, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Canadian Agency for International Development (CIDA), generously
supported the policy advocacy and implementation activities of this work
