TOURISM STATISTICAL RELEASE DECEMBER 2025

Zanzibar recorded 100,729 international visitors in December 2025, an increase of 10.0 percent compared with 91,611 visitors in December 2024 and increased by 38.3 percent compared with 72,833 visitors recorded in the preceding month (November 2025).

European tourists dominated the market by accounting for 68.1 percent of the total visitors in December 2025. Country-wise, Italy dominated the tourism market by accounting for 14.4 percent of all visitors entered in December 2025, followed by French (6.9 percent), while Japanese recorded less than one percent (0.3 percent), the least.

Other performances are shown in Table 1. The data shows that in December 2025, a total of 92,421 visitors, equivalent to 91.7 percent of the total visitors entered through the Airport of which 71,185 visitors entered by international flights and 21,236 by domestic flights. The remaining 8,308 visitors entered through the seaport whereby 61 visitors entered through a cruise ship and 8,247 entered through ferries from the Tanzania Mainland.

Published on December 08, 2025