Tourism in Africa has been adopting various concepts in order for the business to keep expanding. One such a move is the introduction of Trans Frontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs).
The concept of Trans Frontier Conservation Areas (also known as peace park) is where relatively large protected areas cross borders of two or more region form one conservation area like national parks, private game reserves, communal resource areas and heritage sites.
Southern Africa is home to the largest privately owned Trans Frontier Conservation Area known as The Save Valley Conservancy. Found in the south eastern part of Zimbabwe, Save Valley Conservancy lies in the Great Limpopo TFCA that amalgamates Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou National Park, Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park and South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
Another Trans Frontier Conservation Area that is tipped to be the world’s largest trans-frontier conservation area when complete is also found in Southern Africa. This is the 444,000 square km trans-frontier park named Kavango-Zambezi (also known as KAZA) which merges the conservation area of Okavango and Zambezi basin in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Angola and Botswana.
The business of Trans Frontier Conservation is really booming since travelers are treated to seamless borders in the conservation areas. But the tourism is business is still stuck to traditional ways of doing business where payments are done in physical cash or using bank transfers. Nothing is wrong with that.
Since the world of economy is going towards blockchain, is it possible that tourism player embrace the blockchain technology?
For beginners, a blockchain is a decentralised, distributed and public digital database or ledger that is used to record transactions across many computers so that any involved record cannot be altered retroactively, without the alteration of all subsequent blocks.
Unlike banks where only that bank has access to the database, in blockchain many people have copies of a distributed database (ledger). It means no hacker can tamper around with the decentralized database. Data is kept by each user or node from the beginning of each transaction up to the end. Each transaction is verifies by several nodes, and then all nodes update their records so that everything stays up to date and in sync.
Blockchain business does not hinder anyone, tourism players included, from embracing the technology. One good thing about technology is that it always moves forwards and its only people who may lag behind the technology.
Tourism players can join the blockchain advent. Decenturion, which is rated as the first decentralised state offers digital trade in its crypto currency named DCNT coins. If tourism players become members of Decenturion, it means that visitors who are also members can easily pay for tourism products and services using DCNT cryptocurrency.