Local tour operators in the Kilimanjaro region are concerned that the Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project (KPAP) seems to favour foreign operators over locals.
KPAPs mission to ensure fair treatment of porters is praised but local operators feel KPAP discriminates against them by encouraging tourism agents in Europe and the US to only use KPAP-affiliated operators.
Porters and operators have no problem at all. KPAP is the problem, one of the local tour operators, who prefers to remain anonymous, told Tourism Update .
KPAP decides who will get business and who wont and they publicly tell the agents and individual clients that they shouldnt work with companies that are not their partners despite the fact that we all pay for the licence under our governments law.
KPAPs mission
