What Kenya should do to reap benefits from cruise tourism

Tourists come out of Cruise Ship, Oceanias at the port of Mombasa on December 26, 2022. [Omondi Onyango,Standard]

A recent article in The Standard headlined, 'Sh1.4 billion cruise terminal near idle two years after completion',noted that at the Mombasa Port berth number one, lies a cruise terminal regarded as the best along the East African coastline.

The article went on to state that despite the modern terminal being able to allow the berthing of two Oasis-class ships, which are some of the world's largest passenger ships to dock simultaneously, the terminal that was completed in 2021, lies idle. This got me wondering what we should do as a country to reap more from this growing market segment bearing in mind how much push the stakeholders exerted for the terminal to be constructed.