Three small, dated, sourced datasets for Tanzania and Zanzibar. Download them, check them, cite them.
Travel prices in Tanzania are scattered across tariff PDFs, government portals and operator quotes, and the same fee often appears with and without VAT on two different websites. I built these three tables so that one number has one home. I live on Zanzibar's east coast, I run a hotel here, and guests ask me the same three money questions every week: what do the parks cost, what do I pay to get in, and who do I tip. The datasets answer exactly those.
Every table is generated at build time from the same registry that fills the tables on the human pages. If a number changes on the page, it changes in the CSV and the JSON in the same build. They cannot drift apart.
Entry fees for 16 parks and conservation areas, non-resident adult, per 24 hours, USD, VAT included. The base rates come from the newest TANAPA tariff (1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024) and the live NCAA table, with 18% VAT added. The file also carries the low-season rate where one exists, the child rate, the rate before VAT and the Ngorongoro crater descent fee of USD 295 per vehicle.
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What it costs to get in. Four visa lines (single-entry tourist, US multiple-entry, East Africa tourist visa, business) and two lines for the Zanzibar ZIC insurance that has been mandatory for visitors landing on the island since October 2024. The guide itself also explains the mainland NIC policy that applies from 1 October 2026.
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Nine tipping situations as USD ranges: safari driver-guide, camp and lodge staff, the four roles of a Kilimanjaro crew, boat and dhow crews, hotel butlers and Stone Town walking guides. Tipping is custom, not tariff, so these are the amounts operators and guests report, not an official price list.
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Park fees are the only dataset that can be checked against a primary tariff, so they get the strictest process. A script compares the TANAPA and NCAA sources with the registry every week. When a real change shows up, the registry changes and every page that imports it changes with it. TANAPA has published no tariff newer than the July 2023 edition, still in force in October 2026, so the data says so rather than guessing. If you see a higher number quoted somewhere, ask which tariff year it comes from.
VAT is where most online figures go wrong. TANAPA and NCAA publish base rates, and 18% VAT is added on top, so the Serengeti's USD 70 base becomes USD 82.60 at the gate. The CSV carries both columns, labelled, so nobody has to work it out.
Entry costs are re-read against the immigration portal, the ZIC notice and the UK travel advice. Tipping ranges are reconciled against the operator benchmarks quoted on the tipping guide. When the English and German pages once disagreed on the guide tip, I standardised both on the English figure and noted it in the file history.
All three datasets are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. You may copy, chart and republish them, commercially or not, as long as you credit the source and link back.
Ready-made citation line:
WildToSea (2026). Tanzania national park fees, non-resident adult, USD, VAT included, checked 19 October 2026. wildtosea.com/en/data/. Licence CC BY 4.0.
For the entry costs or the tipping norms, swap in the dataset name and its check date from the cards above. Where you can, link to the human page next to the dataset, because the page explains the rules behind the number.
Journalists and researchers: if you want the raw files, the history of a figure, or a quote on why Tanzanian park fees confuse so many visitors, email [email protected]. I answer from Zanzibar.
If something looks wrong, tell me. A wrong number that stays up is worse than a missing one, and I would rather correct it in public. The related guides are the trip planning section and the Tanzania safari hub.