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The table below shows the number of foreign tourists who visited Africa between 1980 and 2000. i) Calculate the percentage decrease in the number of foreign...

The table below shows the number of foreign tourists who visited Africa between 1980 and 2000.

i) Calculate the percentage decrease in the number of foreign tourists who visited Eastern Africa between 1980 and 1990.
ii) State two possible causes of the decline in foreign tourism in Eastern Africa between 1980 and 1990.
iii) Present the information in the table using proportional circles.
iv) Explain three factors that led to a large number of tourists visiting Northern Africa.

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ii) - Political insecurity (tribal clashes) civil wars.
- High cost of travelling by air.
- High rates charged in parks and hotels.
- High level of inflation in the region.
- Completion from other regions.

iii)

iv)To encourage afforestation.
- Increases payments for trees harvested from private farmers.
- Encourage the shamba-system where farmers plant trees in reserved area as they grow their short term crops.
- Encourage village tree nurseries which provide seedlings freely to the farmers.
- Avail the fast maturing exotic trees e.g. Australian eucalyptus to the farmers.
- It should improve on its method of sensitizing the population on important of trees.

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