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Tourism rebounds to Sh352.5b surpassing pre-Covid numbers

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Passengers disembarking from MS Ambience cruise ship after docking at the Port of Mombasa on Wednesday. The cruise vessel had a total of 1,600 passengers on board, including 500 crew. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

The tourism sector performance has rebounded strongly with earnings reaching Sh352.54 billion last year, a 31.5 per cent growth form Sh268.2 billion that the industry earned in 2022.

The performance last year also marked a major milestone, with the earnings surpassing the pre-Covid pandemic numbers of Sh296.2 billion recorded in 2019 - which has until now been the industry's best year - by 32 per cent.

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