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Tana Sub Basin Land Use Planning and Environmental Study Project Tana Sub Basin Land Use Planning and Environmental Study project Amhara National Regional State Bureau of Environmental Protection, Land Administration and Use (BoEPLAU) Tana sub basin Land Use Planning and Environmental Study Project Technical Report XIII: Tourism Assessment (ADSWE, LUPESP/TaSB: Sec.II Vol.XIII/2014) February, 2014 Bahir Dar Client: Bureau of Environmental Protection, Land Administration and Use (BoEPLAU) Address: P.O.Box: 145 Telephone: +251-582-265458 Fax: (058) 2265479 E-mail: Amhara [email protected] Consultant: Amhara Design & Supervision Works Enterprise (ADSWE) Address: P.O.Box: 1921 Telephone: +251-582-181023/ 180638/181201/181254 Fax: (058) 2180550/0560 E-mail: amhara [email protected] BoEPLAU Tourism Assessment Volume XIV ADSWE Page i Tana Sub Basin Land Use Planning and Environmental Study project LIST OF REPORTS Section I: MAIN REPORT Section II: SECTOR STUDIES Volume I: Soil Survey Volume II: Forest and Wildlife Assessment Volume III: Hydrology and Water Resource Assessment Volume IV: Land Use and Land Cover Volume V: Agro Climatic Assessment Volume VI: Crop Resource Assessment Volume VII: Watershed Management Volume VIII: Livestock and Feed Resource Assessment Volume IX: Human Health Assessment Volume X Animal Health Assessment Volume XI: Fish and Wetland Assessment Volume XII: Sociological assessment Volume XIII: Economic Study Volume XIV: Tourism Assessment Section III PLANNING Volume I Approaches, Procedures and Methods Volume II Land Utilization Types Description and their Environmental Requirements Setting Volume III Planning Units Description Volume IV Land Suitability Evaluation Volume V Land Use Plan Volume VI Management plan Volume VII Implementation Guideline SECTION IV ANNEXES Maps albums and data base BoEPLAU Tourism Assessment Volume XIV ADSWE Page ii Tana Sub Basin Land Use Planning and Environmental Study project EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The number of worldwide international tourist arrivals and the associated revenue generated from them is increasing year after year. Among the reasons, the enhancing development, and promotion of tourist attraction sites and/or destinations based on target markets could be mentioned. Despite the fact that the same trend is being observed in Ethiopia in general as well as in Amhara Region and Tana Sub Basin in particular, still there is a gap between the current achievements and the expected ones. Among the many reasons, settlement in and around the attraction sites, agricultural development and expansion in and around tourist attraction sites, grazing, deforestation of forests for fuel wood, charcoal, house building, lack of ownership and landholding certificate regarding some attractions, lack and lose of proper buffer zone, and appropriate amount of area, germination and growth of various species of plants on the walls, on the roofs and inside the flours of the historical and heritage buildings, illegal hunting, etc can be mentioned. This study is done with a principal objective of identifying tourism land utilization types and their problems that can be used as an input for integrated and sustainable land use planning of Tana Sub Basin. To achieve this objective inventory of tourist attraction sites, and multi criteria evaluation methods were employed. The total number of tourist attraction resources inventoried in Tana Sub Basin was 264. When all of them were individually evaluated against historical, cultural, natural and recreational values, their suitability mainly falls between S1-S3 through S2 and their frequency meanders 91-100% thereby averaging 94.5%. In other words out of the 264 tourist attraction resources 249.48 (94.5%) are in the suitable ranges i.e. from S1 to S3 through S2 for the development and promotion of more than one type of tourism at a single site while only 14.52 (5.5%) of the 264 tourist attraction resources are not suitable or they are Ns/N4. In terms of aggregated suitability values, 15% (39) of them are highly suitable, 61% (162) of them are moderately suitable, and 24%(63) of them are mariginally suitable. The tourist attraction resources of Lake Tana Sub Basin are many in number and diversified in kind. Hence these resources will be the basis to have diversified tourism products thereby enabling to attract multi purposed and more number of tourists and realize the associated benefits. BoEPLAU Tourism Assessment Volume XIV ADSWE Page iii Tana Sub Basin Land Use Planning and Environmental Study project TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF REPORTS ............................................................................................................................................ ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................... iii LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................................................ vi LIST OF FIGURES ...................................................................................................................................... vii ACRONYMS ................................................................................................................................................ xi 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1. General Background ....................................................................................................................... 1 1.2. Objectives ....................................................................................................................................... 3 1.2.1. General Objective ................................................................................................................... 3 1.2.2. Specific Objectives ................................................................................................................. 3 1.3. Scope of the Study .......................................................................................................................... 4 1.4. Organization of the Study ............................................................................................................... 4 2. LITERATURE REVIEW ....................................................................................................................... 6 2.1. Previous Plans and Studies ............................................................................................................. 6 2.2. Strong Sides of Previous Studies and Plans .................................................................................... 6 2.3. Limitations of Previous Studies and Plans ...................................................................................... 8 3. MATERIALS AND METHODS ......................................................................................................... 11 3.1. Description of the Study Area ...................................................................................................... 11 3.2. Data Sources, Methods, and Tools ............................................................................................... 14 3.3. Data Analysis Methodology .......................................................................................................... 16 1. RESULT AND DISCUSSION ............................................................................................................. 17 4.1. Inventory of Tourist Attractions ................................................................................................... 17 4.1.1. South Gondar Zone ............................................................................................................... 17 4.1.2. North Gondar Zone ............................................................................................................... 59 4.1.3. West Gojjam Zone and Bahir Dar City Administration ..................................................... 103 4.1.4. Awi Zone ............................................................................................................................ 132 BoEPLAU Tourism Assessment Volume XIV ADSWE Page iv Tana Sub Basin Land Use Planning and Environmental Study project 4.1.5. Irrigation Dams of TaSB and Tana Darchas or the Shores of Lake Tana .......................... 138 4.2. Tourist Attractions Potential Values Suitability Analysis ............................................................ 141 4.2.1. Individual Tourist Attraction Resource Values Analysis ..................................................... 141 4.2.2. Overall Tourist Attractions Suitability Analysis ................................................................ 148 4.3. Problems and Challenges Facing the Tourist Attraction Sites .................................................... 150 4.4. Shape File Area of Specific Tourist Attraction Sites ................................................................... 151 5. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................... 155 5.2. Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 155 5.3. Recommendations ...................................................................................................................... 155 REFERENCES ..........................................................................................................................................
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