KWS opens its top park lodges and hotels to private investors

Tourists at the Voi Wildlife Lodge. The prime properties on offer include 71 eco-lodges and tented camps. [File, Standard]

Kenyans and foreign investors now have an opportunity to privately run luxury hotels, lodges, and merchandise shops in some of Kenya's most premium game reserves and parks.

This is after the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) - which is in charge of running all of the country's game parks - invited investors to develop and manage 122 of its prime hospitality establishments spread around the country.