ANNOUNCEMENT - Tanzania Tourist Board

ANNOUNCEMENTMT. KILIMANJARO NOMINATED AS CANDIDATE FOR THE NEW SEVEN NATURALWONDERS OF THE WORLDTanzania Tourist Board wishes to inform the public that Mount Kilimanjaro has beennominated as a candidate for the seven natural wonders of the world, in a competitionorganised by an organisation known as Seven Natural Wonders in which tourist attractionsfrom all over the world are voted to nominated as The Seven Natural wonders of TheWorld.Tanzania will gain much publicity from being listed in the new list of Seven Natural wondersof the World and will be able to use this opportunity to promote Mt. Kilimanjaro as being inTanzania.Out of the 28 contestants which have made it to this stage, only two nominations are fromAfrica, these being Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) and Table Mountain (South Africa). There isfierce competition between the two African destinations.Voting trends have shown that most people who are voting for Mount Kilimanjaro are thoseresiding outside the country and that very few Tanzanian residents are voting for Mt.Kilimanjaro unlike the case for Table Mountain where large numbers of South Africans aretaking participation in voting for Table Mountain.We (TTB) would like to urge Tanzanians (in and out of Tanzania), friends and patronsworldwide to vote for Mount Kilimanjaro so that it becomes one of the New Seven NaturalWonders Of The World.Votes are being collected at the following website: www.new7wonders.comNote that the competition is open until November 11 th , 2011.

For more information contact:The Managing Director,Tanzania Tourist Board,Dar-es-salaamTel: 255-22-2111244/5Email: md@tanzaniatourism.go.tz