Isiolo tourism stakeholders visit Rwanda for benchmarking

Tourists at Akagera Game Lodge in Rwanda. Isiolo tourism stakeholders visited Akagera National Park over the weekend in a tour organised by County Department of Tourism which wants its two game parks managed by Africa Parks Ltd which also manages Akagera. Photos By ALI ABDI/STANDARD

The county government is pushing to have its game parks and reserves managed by a foreign firm.  

And in an effort to win the support of locals in its plan, the government has taken a team on a tour of a game park in Kigali, Rwanda, to see how a foreign company has managed it.