The tourists are mostly from Italy, Germany and Britain, staying in beach resorts and hotels owned by foreigners. Chachage says in his study that just after Christmas 1996, two chartered planes landed in Zanzibar, straight from Italy, with more than 2,000 tourist who were going to spend their time on the beaches. He says that 'this mass influx shows the type and the nature of tourism which has been going on in Zanzibar'. All over the Island whorehouses are propping up to cater for them. The so-called hotels coming by dozens on the beach front are no more than dens of inequities.
Tourist lure our girls here with wild promises of foreign travel.
They then get them into the cocaine habit. The next thing you know, they get hooked. We want investment but not the sort that turns our sisters and daughters into whores and junkies. It is with the development of tourism that drug abuse and trafficking have become rampant. Some Zanzibari youths went recently protested on the streets, against tourism, in the name of the Islamic faith.