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This paper finds that climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is more pro-poor than visiting the Northern Safari Circuit in terms of the percentage of in-country spending that reaches the poor (28% and 18% respectively). Both types of holiday perform well in terms of their ability to transfer tourist spending at the destination into income for the poor, especially when compared with middle-income African countries with a similar tourist product and when compared with the vibrant local economies in South East Asia. The Mount Kilimanjaro climbing value chain has the highest proportions of pro-poor expenditure as a percentage of total in-country tourist expenditure of any tourist destination studied to date by ODI.