Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Bala La on the 15th, Kenya foreign tourists in 2011 was 1.78 million people, including 37,400 people of Chinese tourists, an increase of 32.4% over 2010.
Kenya tourism revenue in 2011 amounted to $ 1.18 billion, compared with $ 896 million in 2010, an increase of more than 30%.
Ba Lala said that in 2011 Kenya tourist source market basic full recovery, the only decline in the number of tourists from France, the Netherlands and Austria. The United Kingdom, other African countries and the United States is Kenya''s largest tourist source respectively accounted Ken entry by 47%, 24% and 13% of the total number of visitors.
Ba Lala will be excellent marketing performance of the tourism industry achieved success thanks to the National Tourism Administration in international trade fairs and promotion activities. He said that in 2012, Kenya will vigorously develop the tourist market in China, India and Eastern European countries, I hope the current year the tourism industry to maintain the same as last year''s growth.
Tourism is an important foreign exchange earner in Kenya. Prior to the Somali pirates and rebels willing to coastal areas of manufacturing kidnappings, some countries issue safety warnings to their citizens to Kenya, Ken tourism development to be adversely affected. The bedspace lack of aviation facilities are backward constraints is also willing to tourism development bottlenecks. (Guo Qian Song Chen)
Source: Xinhua