Tourism

• Tourism deals with the movement of people away from their normal residence for holidays, recreation and leisure activities, business meetings, visiting relatives and other purposes.
• It has significant economic and social benefits which include, among other things, foreign exchange earnings, creation of employment, generation of revenue for the government, integration of natural culture and societies and the like.
• Now a day, the tourism sector is one of the major economic sectors in the world and is expanding at a steady rate.

• The Tourism prospective in the region is considerable due to its potential cultural sites and tourist attraction centers. This aspect of the Region’s opportunity Made Robe economically beneficiary National/ International Tourists from diverse corner of the Globe take a break at Robe town when they go to or return from visit to these sites.
• The town has economically gains from this incident that made travelers to spend on locally available consumable goods and services.
•  Generally, the Region has got considerable potential from Tourism perspective due to the following cultural and tourist attraction centers that in turn has economic benefit to Robe town; some among the potentials are:
• Bale zone is endowed with several natural and cultural tourist attraction sites. The zone is endowed with numerous mountain peaks, Natural Cave, Religious pilgrimage and Hot springs. Of these the well known and developed tourist sites are:

Bale mountains national park

• to the Western of Robe town

• It is found in wide altitudinal range of 1500 to 4000 meters above sea level
• It consists of the high Mountain parks of Tulu Dimtu, Batu, Worgona and Wasama.
• It covers the total area of 2,200km2 and the largest national park in Africa
• The park is a home of more than 60 species of wild animals of which Mt. Nyala and Ethiopian wolf are endemic species.
• It has more than 160 species of birds (of which 16 out of 28 endemic birds in the country is in this park).
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