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Let’s go to the numbers:

Namibia’s tourism:
• Currently (2016) 1.5
million tourists
visit Namibia each
year [5]

• Average tourist stay
= 9 nights [6]
• Average spend by a
tourist per day =
N$ 1,840 [7] (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 [8]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 [9] (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:
• 5000 hunters per year
• Hunters spend an average of N$ 90,000 (US$ 6,429) per trip [10]
• 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 [11]
• 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 [12]