Give incentives to attract more cruise liners, Tourism stakeholders say

Managing Director of Diani Reef Beach Resort and Spa Bobby Kamani.

The government has been urged to give more incentives to international cruise liners to encourage them to make more frequent calls at the Port of Mombasa.

Mr Bobby Kamani, Managing Director of Diani Reef Beach Resort and Spa and a member of the Coast Tourism Working Group in an interview with The Standard said that while it was highly commendable for the government to convert berth 1 at the Port of Mombasa into a modern cruise handling terminal, there was need to carry out aggressive marketing of the Port Cruise infrastructure and give incentives that would attract more vessels to call at the Port.