Shaping tourism using travel blogs [Travel]

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how are you I'm fine I'm fine I'm great

so what are we talking about today

um the importance of travel blogs so

many people are blogging now it is yeah

and it's really having a very positive

impact on the tourism want oh okay well

as we know Africa is a continent filled

with beautiful people breathtaking

landscapes and unique wildlife despite

all that it has to offer there is a lack

of information about travel on the

continent many are led to believe that

it cannot be done and that is nothing

worth traveling for in Africa and that's

why travel blogs come in as I've said

for some travel interests Africa is a

dream destination filled with soul

wildlife adventure landscapes and

charisma this travelers all share the

passion for travel through video

photographs informative guides and

stories it's all in an effort to lift

the veil on Africa and share the beauty

that awaits fellow travelers under this

kind of knowledge the majority of hotels

have already established an active

social media presence and blogging shall

be a key part of strategy especially for

an industry such as travel and tourism

industry which lends itself

exceptionally well to this type of

content for some travel lovers

Janan across africa has become the

unofficial career and they've documented

their incredible travels on a variety of

interesting and thrilling travel books

blogs some bloggers use their special

skills for telling a great story to

showcase a great continent others tap

into a more specialized skill like their

experiences working with animal

or local communities to add texture and

contest to their blog we spoke to catch

in some sketching zama

the solo wanderer from South Africa who

has traveled to so many countries across

the African continent travel with catchy

takes you on a journey through high

experiences as introduced to the world

by locals take a listen

our biggest challenge as applicants is

that you don't know anything about each

other some other countries when I went

to visit them nice people actually on

social media asking me is that actually

a country within Africa and ensure my

countries met Mauritania and Saturday

and príncipe so we don't know much about

each other and lack of information about

each other will tend to become

intolerant of each other

so after good I could use my blogging

and my travel my skill of writing and

storytelling to encourage other things

to learn more about each other through

travel having traveled to more than 30

countries in the past four years and

Zama was hoping to travel to at least 50

countries this year

last year alone she traveled to 21

countries however the travel enthusiast

has encountered several challenges take

a listen

the main candidates travel Africa

advocate definitely visit I sense more

many reasons than others and it actually

does not make sense it doesn't make

sense how I get to America and nice

fridge what 12 are the charges and I'm

the only African and I was the only

person really got to get me it doesn't

make me feel foul I have to apply for a

visa to a country and when you get to

those elephants you get cheated really

badly and it's like they're doing you a

favor I don't want you to come to that

country and other highly experienced

with the accept and the one thing that

discourages people traveling are the

givers and I've seen through my travels

indeed wardens up in Zama has said is

true in previous travel segments we have

highlighted how cumbersome it is for

Africans to travel across the

consonant take a look and take a listen

to her but in short I would like to see

more Africans from the Africa and the

biggest challenge in what idea has been

support I only have one private company

that they've had supported what I do the

Tourism Board just a continent the

incident reports and I think like

there's so much more that we could do in

telling African stories the Africans but

because of that lack of support it

becomes really really difficult because

then I also struggle with finances in

terms of actually achieving what I would

like to achieve

I would like to see in Africa where it's

easy for us to get from point A to point

B you need to start telling our own

story the benefits of isn't travel among

Africans in Africa are far-reaching

promoting revenues in the tourism sector

creating jobs stimulating economic

growth and enhancing father regional

integration there's a great deal of

evidence that migration both the

economies of the receiving countries

free movement in Africa can be expected

to enhance business and investment as

the ear examples are shown that Arab

from me on this week's travel segment

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