Balala to name task force for selling Kenya as meeting venue

Utali College captain Timothy Wanjiro serves Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala during an inaugural State House Tourism Summit at State House Mombasa. [Photo: Omondi Onyango]

Buoyed by the recent increase in international conferences, the national government has said it will set up a Convention Bureau to come up with a policy to market Kenya as a meeting destination.

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala said on Wednesday that a task force would be formed to advise the Government on the formation of the bureau in 30 days. He also said a convention centre would be put up at the Mombasa Beach hotel, adding that the coastal county was ideal such an initiative.