Since 2022, UNDP Tanzania and UNWTO have been collaborating on a joint project, titled “Tanzania Tourism Recovery through Digital Transformation and Local Economy Development”. The main purpose of the project is to support the tourism sector to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and become more resilient by focusing on building a green, innovative, safe and more inclusive tourism sector in the country.

UNWTO, in partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), has successfully developed a Tourism Dashboard for Morocco's Ministry of Tourism, Handicraft, and Social and Solidarity Economy. This tool, built on the Ministry's data model and statistics, involves consolidating Ministry databases, classifying resources, and constructing an interactive dashboard using Microsoft Power BI. The draft Dashboard has been delivered to the Ministry. 

Tourism is an ever-evolving sector, offering enormous potential for economic growth and development for Africa. However, to harness this potential fully, ensuring safety and security is paramount. It is within this framework that UNWTO, in partnership with UEMOA, organized a virtual workshop on "Safety and Security in Tourism in Africa", uniting over 50 participants from various African nations.

The Botswana Government, in partnership with UNWTO, is embarking on an ambitious journey to transform Kasane-Kazungula, nestled in the scenic northwest region of our country, into a bustling international and domestic tourism hotspot.

One of the flagship initiative of UNWTO’s Tourism for Rural Development Programme, Best Tourism Villages (BTV) launched in 2021, aims to propel local development by recognizing rural destinations that exhibit accredited cultural and natural assets and vision on sustainability.  

At the kind invitation of the UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office for Central Africa, UNWTO participated in a three-day workshop aimed at building the capacities of local organizations, enterprises, and communities involved in ecotourism and conservation work around the two World Heritage sites in Cameroon.