Singing with the Maasai

I met Russell at Simon and Suzi’s wedding in November 2008. He sang the strangest song I’d ever heard. I thought it was Ethiopian or something, it was truly beautiful. Speaking to him letter I discovered that he was a sound therapist and was singing from his soul, he was making it up as he [Read More …]

Electric free fridges

The success of the domestic fridge pots started us thinking that we need to scale up this concept so that we could keep the tomatoes from the farm fresh for longer and so increase the farm’s profitability. The concept is simple as you can see in the photo. The gap between the walls is filled [Read More …]

Responsible Travel and Cultural Exchange

We used to go on holiday, this is now called tourism. Then there was mass tourism and independent travel. Now we have eco-tourism, community based tourism, responsible tourism, sustainable tourism, ethical tourism, volun-tourism, pro-poor tourism and doubtless many more types of tourism be it travelling independently or otherwise. It is a muddle with tour operators [Read More …]

Development and education

Development and poverty reduction Like many developing countries, getting good economic growth is the main objective and it is assumed that the benefits of that growth will trickle down through society to help alleviate poverty. But this is a slow process at best and there are other faster ways to help alleviate poverty, such as [Read More …]

Tourism challenges for Babati

Challenges facing Tourism Industry in Tanzania: The Case of Babati Town Council By Julian Page- Director of the Livingstone Tanzania Trust July 2010 Introduction Tourism around the world continues to grow at a remarkable rate and  this is reflected in the statistics for Tanzania as the countries is close to reaching 1,000,000 a year. Tourism [Read More …]