Tourism for Future Generations Social Learning for Adaptive Tourism Management WORKSHOP REPORT July 2009 WORKSHOP REPORT 2 CONTENTS 2. GOAL OF THE PROJECT Better planned tourism directly improving 1. Introducing the project .................................... 2 local livelihoods and rangeland ecosystem 2. Goal of the project ........................................... 2 management through ethical business partnerships with rural communities. 3. Objectives .......................................................... 2 4. Activities implemented .................................... 3 5. Workshops introduction ................................... 3 6. Venue and participants .................................. 3 7. Facilitators........................................................... 3 8. Workshop objectives ........................................ 3 9. Methodology ..................................................... 4 3. OBJECTIVES 10. Expectations, fears and evaluation .............. 4 11. Workshop content ............................................ 5 • To produce participatory adaptive Land, environment and tourism ..................... 5 management plans for tourism in four Land use planning ............................................ 6 villages in the Lake Natron and Loliondo Tourism as a business ........................................ 6 areas of Ngorongoro District. Identifying challenges and opportunities .... 7 • To produce a best practices toolkit derived 12. Issues arising from the group work: from the workshop and the project’s Piyaya and Arash .............................................. 8 accumulated experience for use in other private investor-community initiatives Engaresero and Pinyinyi................................. 10 involving tourism. 13. Conclusion........................................................ 11 1. INTRODUCING THE PROJECT The aim of this project is to develop innovative approaches to community involvement in tourism plan- ning that communities and responsible tourism businesses across Tanzania can all benefit from. • The project is co-ordinated by TNRF, implemented by a team consisting of representatives of TNRF, UCRT and Honeyguide Foundation. • Funding is provided by IUCN – EGP and Sand County Foundation Bradley Fund for the Environment • The project period is from 1st April 2009 – 31st March 2010. • The geographical area is Ngorongoro District, the villages of: Piyaya, Engaresero, Pinyinyi and Arash. These villages are involved because of existing, or highly potential, tourism activities in the area. There are already established relationships between these villages and/or Honeyguide/ UCRT. ADAPTIVE TOURISM MANAGEMENT 3 4. ACTIVITIES IMPLEMENTED only. The reason being the team felt the vil- lage capacity required to be built before meeting with the other stakeholders. It was also decided to combine two villages per The project team carried out introductory workshop in order to facilitate experience meetings with the four village councils in sharing. April/May at which point the team intro- duced itself and also explained the outline of the project. A brochure explaining the pro- 6. VENUE AND PARTICIPANTS ject in Kiswahili was circulated to all partici- pants. The team also visited the District Coun- cil and District Commissioner offices in Lo- These first workshops were held on 13 & 14 liondo in the same period, and introduced July for Piyaya and Arash [held in Piyaya], themselves to some of the NGOs active in and on 16th & 17th July for Engaresero and the area [i.e. Oxfam, NGONET]. Pinyinyi [held in Engaresero]. The intention was to invite a cross section of 20 villagers by The team then conducted a baseline survey name from each village in order to get a in May/June in order to collect some basic good mix of ideas. For example; members of information relating to the project log frame the village government, business people, ma- indicators. Questionnaires were developed jor livestock keepers, women, religious lead- for village government level and household ers, head teacher, some of those at house- level and used in interview sessions with the hold level interviewed for the baseline. This respondents. A cross-section of twenty house- worked well in Piyaya/Arash but not in Enga- holds were interviewed in each village. resero/Pinyini where participants were mostly A further questionnaire was circulated to the Laigwanak and village government repre- tour operators involved in the area. The infor- sentatives. mation gathered in the various surveys was used as inputs in the workshops. A report of ACILITATORS the findings has been produced. 7. F The facilitators of the workshop were mem- 5. WORKSHOPS INTRODUCTION bers of the project team: Annie Francis, Enock Chengullah, Jamboi Bughama, and According to the steps outlined in the project Ole Kirimbai. Justin Saikon of Honeyguide document there would be three stakeholder played a key role in the logistical arrange- workshops for each village over the year re- ments in Piyaya, and in translation to Maa in sulting in the tourism management plan for Engaresero. Damian Bell joined for the sec- each village. The team decided to adapt ond workshop as did Makko of CRT who also the methodology to reflect the circum- assisted with translation to Maa. Translation in stances of the village level and hold the first Piyaya was kindly provided by the Evangelist workshops with village level representatives Minister, who also provided musical enter- tainment by singing Maasai songs and play- ing guitar. 8. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE The overall objective of the workshops was to bring together village stakeholders in tourism in Arash, Pinyinyi, Piyaya, Engaresero in Ngorongoro District to discuss how to man- age tourism in their villages through adaptive village tourism management plans. The sub-objectives to assist towards achiev- ing the overall objective were: WORKSHOP REPORT 4 The intended programme involved four pres- • To inform and clarify on policy environ- entations on the first day with only group ment work on the second day. The team was • To increase understanding on Land aware that this might be a heavy pro- gramme and in fact had to move the fourth Use Planning in relation to tourism presentation to the second day. The thinking • To identify challenges and opportuni- was to give a lot of inputs and have ques- ties for income from tourism at village tions so that participants could digest the in- & household level formation and use it in the group work the • To increase understanding of tourism next day. as a business • To identify roles and responsibilities of stakeholders 10. SUMMARY OF EXPECTATIONS, FEARS • To identify the key components of a tourism management plan AND EVALUATION The intended outcome of the workshops was In both workshops the participants were re- as below: quested to mention their expectations of the Better understanding by villagers on the pol- workshop and also their fears, and at the end icy context for tourism, and the challenges of the workshop these were revisited to and opportunities for villages check whether their expectations had been met and their fears reduced. Tourism management plans agreed as a way forward, and framework for these tourism Expectations included: better understanding management plans starts to be identified. of tourism, its advantages and disadvan- tages; importance of the environment in tourism; what is involved in land use planning; 9. METHODOLOGY how to have good relationship between in- vestors and the community; how women can benefit from tourism; how to assist Pinyinyi which has no real tourism at present. As previously mentioned the team chose to Fears included: tourism may destroy the envi- combine representatives of two villages in ronment; benefits of tourism may not reach each workshop for exchange of experiences, the intended beneficiaries; the community but this also builds the concept of collabora- will not benefit from the wildlife in it’s area; tion in tourism at village level rather than threats from hunting companies and tourism; competition. This seemed to work well in balancing tourist numbers to prevent nega- Arash/Piyaya in that both villages have similar tive impacts; erosion of local values and cul- kinds of tourism activities and similar agree- ture as result of tourism; conflict between ments with companies. It worked differently tourism and other land use such as livestock in Engaresero and Pinyinyi as one would ex- keeping. pect as Pinyini has virtually no tourism industry at the moment and Engaresero has a lot of tourist traffic passing through. However Piny- inyi benefited from hearing about experi- ences in Engaresero Inviting participants by name worked well in Piyaya/Arash as there were more diverse ex- periences and ideas contributed. ADAPTIVE TOURISM MANAGEMENT 5 11. WORKSHOP CONTENT TOPIC 1: THE LAW, ENVIRONMENT AND TOURISM: Opportunities in policies and laws re- garding the environment, natural resources in relation to security, con- servation and community based tourism Enock. Chengullah – Tanzania Natural Resource Forum The aims of the topic were: Issues which were raised during discussion included:- • To generate understanding about the relationship between the environment • Beekeeping is of importance in environ- and tourism mental conservation because it helps plants in the process of pollination and once bee • To learn the key laws which are impor- hives are set no more tree cutting will be al- tant for developing tourism in the com- lowed or other environmental