Kenya’s tourism sector now game for bigger local market
Reinvention is key as Covid-19 puts the brakes on international arrivals
10 August 2020 - 16:43
At a time when hundreds of thousands of tourists would be making their way to Kenya to witness the famed wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara, the national reserve is quiet in 2020 as Covid-19 puts a stop to tourist arrivals in East Africa’s largest economy.
Despite the removal of an international travel ban on August 1, tourists are expected to return only in limited numbers as the government requires all travellers to carry negative Covid-19 certificates and it limits entries to countries with low infection rates...
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