Kenya tourism fully recovered in H1 2010

Date 2010/8/16 15:17:09 | Topic: Kenya

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's tourist arrivals rose to 483,000 in the first half of 2010, officials said on Monday, beating for the first time the record numbers posted in 2007.
"We are fully recovered and on a growth trajectory," Murithi Ndegwa, head of Kenya Tourism Board, told reporters.

In 2008, post election violence badly hurt Kenya's tourism sector, made worse by the following global economic slowdown.

In the first half of 2007, 477,000 tourists visited east Africa's largest economy famed for its safari parks and white sand beaches.

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