Estimated tourism earnings
USD 4.41bn
International Visitors' Exit Survey estimate; USD 3.90bn in 2024. Period: 2025.
Why Tanzania · hard-currency services
Tourism: arrivals, value and the FX transmission.
Arrivals recovered beyond their pre-pandemic peak and estimated visitor spend rose. KCP keeps that tourism flow beside, not inside; the reserve stock, because foreign-exchange earnings do not become reserves one-for-one.
Tracked to the official source's own cadence, not presented as a streaming feed. Every chart keeps its observation date, unit and scope attached.
Evidence set checked .
Cadence: Annual survey
International arrivals
2.29m
Visitor arrivals, compared with 2.14m in 2024. Period: 2025.
Average spend per person-night
USD 289
Survey estimate, compared with USD 243 in 2024. Period: 2025.
Official reserves
USD 6.33bn
A reserve-stock context metric, not tourism receipts accumulated one-for-one. Period: 2026-06.
Official source
As at · Source: Bank of Tanzania
How far has the visitor base recovered and expanded?
International visitor arrivals
As at 31 Dec 2025 · Source: Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Bank of Tanzania, National Bureau of Statistics, Immigration Services Department and Zanzibar Commission for Tourism. Exact values and method remain in the static evidence table below.
What reserve-stock context sits beside the tourism flow?
Official foreign-exchange reserves
As at 30 Jun 2026 · Source: Bank of Tanzania; Monthly Economic Review (monthly).. Exact values and method remain in the static evidence table below.
Concept map · not an attribution model
How tourism reaches the external account, and where the inference stops
01 · Visitor economy
Visitor spending is estimated.
The exit survey combines departing-visitor responses with Immigration totals through the Tourist Expenditure Model.
02 · External-account flow
Travel credits record service receipts.
Bank of Tanzania travel credits are a balance-of-payments flow with their own period and measurement definition.
03 · Reserve stock
Many flows meet at reserves.
Imports, other exports and services, debt and capital flows, valuation, intervention and gold purchases also affect the stock. There is no one-to-one conversion.
What the public record supports
Reading the evidence without outrunning it
Volume
Arrivals moved beyond 2019.
The annual series records 2.294 million arrivals in 2025 against 1.527 million in 2019. That is a scale observation, not a capacity or profitability conclusion.
Yield
Spend moved with the recovery.
Average estimated spend rose to USD 289 per person-night from USD 243 in 2024, making visitor value visible alongside headcount.
FX context
Receipts and reserves answer different questions.
Tourism is a hard-currency earning channel. Reserve direction still reflects the full external and financial account, so correlation is not attribution.
Freshness contract
What updates, and when
“Latest” means the newest verified observation the named authority has published. A source check never advances an observation date.
Annual exit survey
Tourism earnings, arrivals and spend
International visitors and estimated tourism earnings for 2025.
Monthly economic review
Travel receipts, arrivals and official reserves
Balance-of-payments travel receipts, international arrivals and official reserves.
Official source
As at · Source: Bank of Tanzania