The Ethiopian Tour Operators Association (ETOA) is a member-driven, non-profit organization dedicated to empowering our community of tour operator professionals, including inbound tour operators, outbound tour operators, destination management companies, travel agencies, transport providers, guides, and other tourism-related businesses across Ethiopia, through training, advocacy, and sustainable development initiatives.
Tesfa Tours are the experts in Trekking and community tourism in Ethiopia. We believe community tourism means holidays that support local communities, but we also believe that holidays must give our guests a wonderful time. Tesfa Tours was set up in 2010 to take on the mantle of promoting the community tourism that has been developed in Ethiopia under Mark Chapman’s guidance since 1999. Our holidays all include a key element of this community tourism. We work closely with the communities, the guides and other stakeholders to ensure the success of this special ‘project’ which now involves over 20 communities serving food and hosting guests in both the Wollo (Lalibela) and Tigray areas. In addition to these treks, we organise complete holidays combining Tesfa community treks with visits to the historic churches in Tigray, to Gondar, Axum and Lalibela, to see remote churches on Lake Tana and Lake Ziway, to see the jagged peaks in the Simien mountains, and the Afro Alpine moorland in the Bale mountains or Gwassa Menz, the old Muslim city of Harar, the Danakil depression with lava lakes, mineral deposits and camel caravans, and all the other amazing sights of Ethiopia. In addition it is our objective that our tours are as socially responsible and environmentally sustainable as possible ... So let us create your Ethiopian Adventures!
