What hotels at the Coast can do to increase tourist numbers

Team Baba plastic from Swahili Pot are joined by tourists during Plastic Management awareness day walk from Treasury square to Pembe Za Ndovu in Mombasa. May 6, 2023. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

Blaming the government for every conceivable ill has become a national pastime. Those willing to take responsibility for their own failures are few and far between. Yet the first step towards fixing a problem is in acknowledging one's culpability.

Nowhere is this clearer than the situation that obtains with the country's tourism sector apropos of coastal circuit. A section of tourism leaders has kept pushing for an open skies policy as the panacea to flagging tourist traffic. They claim that allowing all foreign carriers to land at the port city of Mombasa willy-nilly will drive up tourist numbers.