Takims Holidays

Settling in Zanzibar in 1896, the Takim family initially established their livelihood as traders and merchants on the spice island.  In 1950, Akber Takim started the very first travel agency on the island of Zanzibar called 'Takim Travel Services'. The company soon gained traction by developing an exclusive partnership with East African Airways.

Akber Takim was determined to develop the local travel and tourism industry. A famous family anecdote truely demonstrates the resilience and determination that he had. Akber Takim was informed of a flight delay of a plane arriving in Zanzibar to pick up tourists. In those days there were no night landing facilities and no lights at Zanzibar airport. In order to avoid further delays, Akber called all his friends on the island to bring their cars and formed the landing strip using the beams of their cars as landing lights. The plane landed safely and this was the first night landing at Zanzibar airport.

During the Zanzibar revolution, Akber Takim decided to relocate his family to Dar es Salaam, Tanganika. In 1964 when Zanzibar and Tanganika merged to form the United Republic of Tanzania, Takims Travel Services was re-launched as Takims Holidays.