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2.3 Relevant source markets and visitor profile

Namibia is a key tourist destination, receiving visitors people (Figure 4). The number of foreign tourist arriv-
from the region and from other continents as well. als increased, for example, from 1.3 million visitors in
Data for tourist arrivals, while available at the national 2012 to approximately 1.6 million visitors in 2017 – a
scale, is very scarce at sub-national levels. Hence it is sustained yearly increase of between 2.4-3.1 percent
difficult to indicate how many tourists visit the Erongo over the six-year period. In 2018, the tourist arrivals
Region. This section will therefore primarily focus on increased to 1.65 million and to 1.68 million by the end
the tourist visitor data for the country. Prior to 2020, of 2019 (Ministry of Environment, Forestry & Tourism,
the country’s yearly visitors would exceed 1 million 2019).

Figure 4: Number of Visitors to Namibia

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In 2017, the majority of the country’s visitors came Africa, 15.5 percent from Europe, 2.1 percent from
from within the African continent (78.3%) while other North America and 3.3 percent from others -including
important source markets included Europe (19.9%), Asia, indicating the increasing importance of Africa as
North America (2.5%) and others -including Asia (3.7%) a tourist source market for the country.
(Figure 5). By 2019, 79.1 percent were coming from

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