UN study tips Africa on raising tourism revenues

Park wardens drive through the Mikumi National Park, which borders the Selous Game Reserve, in Tanzania on October 13, 2013. PHOTO | AFP

Africa attracted 63 million of the 1.3 billion international tourists in 2017, study shows.

The figure was, nevertheless, 9 percent higher than the previous year, according to the study commissioned by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).