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Tour industry asks State for bailout amid travel ban

Tourists at Maasai Mara National Game reserve. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Tour operators are asking the State to offer financial bailouts and lift restrictions for inter-county travel to save the tourism industry from collapse.

In a statement on Thursday, the Kenya Association of Travel Agents (Kata) said new lockdown restrictions announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta at the end of last month dealt a major blow to the sector, which was just recovering. 

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