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    A History of Tourism and Tourism Resources in Arba Minch and its Surroundings, Southern Ethiopia
    ( 2019-10-10) Temesgen Woza Wonbera
    This paper investigates “A History of Tourism and Tourism Resources in Arba Minch and its surroundings, Southern Ethiopia, from 1967 to 2008/9”. is conducting an inspection study accordingly to make vulnerable the gradation to which Arba Minch, similar throughout the manuscript and its surroundings, has overflowing tourist attraction sites. The area, Arba Minch, is a tourist destination in Ethiopia that has been acknowledged as having considerable potential for tourism development. This study extracts that the reason that no possible research work has been carried out in the area before, and because most of these attractions are not made public to domestic and foreign visitors exaggerated the development of tourism in the area. The paper also highlights the development of tourism in the study area, its problems, and solutions. It investigates the beginning of tourism in Arba Minch and its surrounding area and its historical development. Furthermore, this study attempts to show the distribution of tourism benefits in the area and also points out the major tourism-related problems and appropriate solutions. It also shows how the eviction of both Guji and Kore communities from their residence land in the Park affected their livelihoods. It recommends the safeguarding of valuable tourism resources in Arba Minch can be used as a source of income that would be generated by tourists visiting the destination. Due to its location in the Rift Valley Region, Arba Minch is a naturally exceptional area where many potential tourism sites are found. Fatefully, findings of this work unearth, such as other crucial tourism sites, Arba Minch and its surrounding barely managed to produce good income.