With tourism, more can be done

Kenya is currently upbeat on the revival of her tourism fortunes and there are good indications for this. The resurgence of the tourism sector seen by the recent cruise ships docking and the chartered flights increment vis-à-vis the previous period, coupled with more arrivals after the lifting of travel advisories by the UK and US among others is encouraging.

The vigour by which the new Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has taken the all-too-familiar docket is indicative. The budgetary allocation by the Jubilee Government in 2015/2016 financial year has been a step in the right direction much as hitherto the funds had not fully gotten to the systems.However, some hard questions in light of the bigger economic dilemma the country is facing need to be addressed.