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...
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