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o Average tourist stay = 9 nights

o Average spend by a tourist per day = N$ 1,840 (US$ 132)
▪ Tourism contributes N$ 5.2 billion (US$ 371 million) or 3.5% of the country’s GDP in the
primary sector and a total of N$ 15.1 billion (US$ 1.07 billion) or 10.2% of the country’s GDP to
the secondary and tertiary sectors.
▪ Tourism creates 45,000 jobs in Namibia (6.5% of all jobs) per year in the primary sector.
• Interestingly - there are an average of 33.3 tourists for each job created in Namibia in tourism.

Average spend by a tourist per day = N$ 1,840 (US$ 132) and equates to 3.5% of GDP in the primary

sector

There are 33.3 tourists for each job created in Namibia
• Conservation hunting:
o 5000 hunters per year
o Hunters spend an average of N$

90,000 (US$ 6,429) per trip
o Using the same average stay as a
tourist this means hunters are
spending an average of N$
10,000 per day. This is five times
the value per day that hunters
are spending, excluding the
venison that they contribute to

the Namibian economy:
▪ Conservation hunting
contributes N$ 450,000,000
towards Namibia’s GDP in the
primary sector, which is
0.24% of the country’s GDP
▪ This is an estimated N$ 1.35

billion (US$ 96 million) total
including the secondary and
tertiary sectors or 0.75% of
the country’s GDP.
▪ N$ 100 million (US$ 7.14
million) goes directly to
communal conservancies
• This accounts for 50% of the

revenue earned by communal
conservancies annually directly from
conservation hunting.
o Hunting creates 15,000 jobs in
Namibia (2.1 % of all jobs) per
year in the primary sector.
• This is significant. This means 3