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Agency rekindles resort cities plan in ASAL counties

Camels walk into the desert from Lake Turkana in Marsabit County. [File, Standard]

A State-backed think tank has revisited the proposal to set up resort cities in Lamu, Turkana and Isiolo counties as a way of boosting tourism in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs).

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (Kippra) in a discussion paper documenting how ASAL regions can help boost the country's foreign exchange earnings, notes that this proposal was not implemented in the tourism sector 2018-2022 strategic plan.

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