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Region banks on hotels boom to ride out economic slump

Kakamega Golf Hotel General Manager Reuben Argut during interview with Standard on August 11, 2020. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Counties in Western Kenya are banking on the expanding hospitality industry to emerge from the economic slump occasioned by Covid-19.

Bungoma, Kakamega, Busia and Vihiga counties are grappling with shrinking revenues compounded by the pandemic and delayed release of revenues to devolved units due to the current impasse over the Division of Revenue Bill, 2019 in the Senate.

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