Tourism in the East African countries is in real decline every day.  God has blessed us with many resources such as wild animals, minerals of different types including Tanzanite, gold, coal and diamonds and apart from that there are natural gases found in Mtwara region in Tanzania.  Also there are various National parks such as Ngorongoro found in Tanzania, Serengeti also found in Tanzania and the highest mountain, mount Kilimanjaro found at Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania.


But once we came onto the factors that hinder tourism development in east Africa countries we found that there is political instability in most of these countries.  Every day we see terrorist attacks on some towns in Kenya such as Lamu and Mombasa, back to the Congo republic.  There is high opposition between their government and ethnic groups like M23 enter to the forest and started a war.  This caused tourists from around the world to stop visiting the Congo because they fear for their life. 


Poor infrastructure also is the one factor which hinders development of tourism.  There are poor roads and railway towards the national parks so tourists fail to visit in those national parks.  During the rain seasons there are also poor policies made by these countries and the policies do not promote our tourism sector to the external world.  Few people from France, Italy, USA and European countries are visiting these tourist attractions.  Through the tourism sector we see some people get employment opportunities and improve their life standards.  Also some towns are now growing for example Arusha town, Nairobi, Kampala and Dar Es Salaam.