Tourism in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park

Figures & data

Figure 1: Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park and Transfrontier Conservation Area. Source: GoM, GoSA & GoZ (2002).

Table 1: Annual tourism estimates in the GLTP countries

	South Africa	Zimbabwe	Mozambique
Nature tourism arrivals ('000s)^a	4634.5	1494.4	42.0
Total tourism arrivals ('000s)^b	5872.3	1966.6	400.0
Indicative % nature arrivals ^c	78.9	76.0	10.5
Nature tourism income ($US m)^a	2298.8	143.5	8.4
Tourism income ($US m)^d	4561.7	184.1	—
Indicative % income from nature tourism ^a	50.3	77.9	—
Travel and tourism industry GDP ($US m)^d	3 563.9	158.8	—
^aScholes & Biggs (2004). Data for 2000 for African, non-African and domestic tourists.
^bSouth Africa data: SA Tourism (2004); Zimbabwe data: ZTA (2001). Data for 2000 used. Mozambique data for 2001 drawn from Christie (2004).
^cThe proportion is indicative only, as the figures compared are for different years, and figures were drawn from different techniques: border entry counts, estimates and satellite accounts.
^dWTTC (2003). Data for 2003, but unavailable for Mozambique.

Figure 2: Makuleke's Pafuri Triangle and the Sengwe Corridor. Source gl_makuleke_al_1q. Not to scale.

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