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National Tour Operation and Travel Agency Ethiopia is endowed with various combination of tourist attractions cultural historical natural & man-made and impressive scenery suitable climate rich flora & fauna and recognized archaeological find sites. Tourism as an economic activity in Ethiopia was started in the early 1960’s . by the time, the government established some important Organization because of the increased number of inbound tourist consecutively in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. In 1964, Ethiopia’s Tourist organization was established. In 1966 the first Tourist master plan was prepared. In 1971 the Ethiopian Tourist Trading S.C. was established In 1982 National Tour Operation and travel Agency Enterprise (NTO) was official established In1963 the number of inbound tourist arrivals was 19.215. After ten years (in 1973), it reached 73,662. Nevertheless, during next four years the number of tourists tended to decline year after year due to the government’s ideology

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