East african Kenyan Tourism news: Domestic tourism in the country has shown some decline as the referendum vote slated for early next month beckons. Tourism players in the Kenyan coast say most bookings for domestic conference and seminars have avoided the first part of August that coincides with the referendum. According to the Mombasa Coast Tourism Association Chairman Mohammed Hirsi the international travel market is however performing exceptionally well. NTV Kenyan Tourism Report – Youtube.com – Channel.
East african Kenyan Domestic tourism declines – NTV Kenya
– July 23, 2010
Nairobi
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Djibouti
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It is a pity that efforts aimed at making domestic tourism fruitful are dying away. I still think this is not the end. People have to be educated about what we have in Kenya and that they need to visit some of these locations to see the beauty of our country. In fact this is when most will learn to appreciate and also actively participate in caring our national resources and also caring our clientèle from world over.
The other thing is that the govt has to rethink on it’s strategies about what people earn in Kenya, by increasing the numbers of the population in the middle class, Kenya will ensure a ready domestic market which will help fight declining business during the low and mid seasons. our govt has a lot of work to do.
In clicksafajris, we are trying to bring all the stakeholders together creating this platform (free) where they will soon be able to interact and even discuss issues affecting such trends as domestic tourism. In countries like Spain, France etc domestic tourism is the most important source of income in the sector, taking into account that these are countries that receive up to 50million tourists per annum, will Kenya beat these figures one day, what I know is that Kenya already has a product that can attract much more than these numbers, but how do we go about it, is the big question