Tanzania, Feb. 17 -- Arusha. The US is still the biggest source of tourists visiting Tanzania, which is currently conducting a promotional drive to raise the number of arrivals to pre-pandemic levels.

Latest National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data shows that the number of tourist arrivals rose to 1,454,920 in 2022 from 922,692 in 2021, with the new figure falling short of the pre-pandemic level by only 55,231.

A total of 100,600 tourists came in from the US, the highest number of arrivals from a country outside Africa.

Other leading sources were France (100,371), Germany (67,718), the United Kingdom (60,116) and Poland (46,431).

The top five sources in Africa were Kenya (166,324), Burundi (100,851), Zambia (46,787), Malawi (44,438) a...