Beer inflation hits holiday island: tourists rage – minister resigns. Thousands of people are threatened with unemployment.
Zanzibar hotels are running out of alcohol - hoteliers fear that tourists will stay away. Beer prices have risen by 100 percent, reports the BBC. A little blonde now costs two dollars. Last year there was only one. Tourists are left high and dry along the Matemwa beaches. If you want alcohol, you have to go downtown. A US holidaymaker complained: “The only challenge I have now is that I can't get booze”