Isiolo International Airport was refurbished and commissioned in July 2017. However, since then, it has remained largely underutilised despite being a strategic piece of infrastructure in the upper Eastern and northern Kenya counties.
As envisaged in the Vision 2030 Economic Blueprint, Isiolo is one of the three resort cities in the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) corridor development project, the other two being Lamu and Diani in Kwale County.