Organisers of the Africa Hotel Investment Forum and other leaders of the hotel investment community have welcomed the recent pro-tourism administration in Kenya, hot at the heels of the announcement by the president of several ministerial candidates.
The new government stood for election with tourism highlighted in its manifesto and because Uhuru Kenyatta’s inauguration, commitments has been made to extend the intensity of Kenya’s tourism marketing activity, to double the variety of tourists to 3 million a year and to supply incentives to encourage investment in tourist accommodation.
According to the realm Travel & Tourism Council, the entire contribution of tourism to Kenya’s GDP in 2012 was KES448.4bn, 12.5 per cent of the whole.
The figure is forecast to rise by 2.2 per cent in 2013 and to rise by 4.5 per cent every year over a better decade to KES714.8bn in 2023.
Phyllis Jepkosgei Kandie have been nominated because the new cabinet secretary for commerce and tourism, with useful experience to attract on from a career that has embraced banking and enterprise promotion.
She also has academic qualifications in business and economics.
Improved transport infrastructure can also be high at the new government’s agenda.
Michael Kamau, a prominent civil engineer and a key architect of the infrastructure upgrade within the last ten years, have been proposed because the cabinet secretary accountable for constructing a sequence of commuter railway networks in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, including a link to Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
One gathering with a view to have a touching on the velocity of tourism growth might be AHIF 2013, which happens in Nairobi on September 24th-25th.
It brings together the leading international hotel investors in Africa with local operators, ministers, government officials and industry experts, who will discuss all aspects of hotel investment and operation in Africa.
In 2012, the development attracted 426 delegates from 38 countries who represented 310 organisations. Several networking contacts made at AHIF have since led to promising new business relationships and the development attracted considerable media attention, with around 100 reports appearing inside the Kenyan media and world wide.
Jonathan Worsley, chairman of AHIF organiser Bench Events, said: “The pro-tourism stance of the recent Kenyan government is evidently increasing the country’s investment appeal and the proactive nature of the Kenya Tourist Development Corporation is an element too.
“Even though there has been pressure to stage AHIF 2013 in another African city this year, it made a powerful and successful case to maintain the development in Nairobi.”
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