Tourists now to use a single visa to visit EA tourists’ sites
by admin on Aug.31, 2007, under General News
Tourists will only need a single visa to access tourist attraction centers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
This comes after East African tourism head’s have agreed to market the region as a single tourist destination.
Kenya tourist board managing director Dr Ongong’a Achieng says Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will market the region as a destination in main source markets and during international exhibitions.
He said this move is aimed at making it easier for tourists visiting any of the three countries to access the other two.
Speaking during the launch of executive turbine airline, Dr Ongong’a said Kenya tourist board would hold talks with international airlines that do not fly to Kenya to woo them to ply the Kenyan route.
The move is aimed at overcoming the challenge of lack of direct flights to Kenya from some tourism source markets.
Executive turbine has started flying high-spending tourists to tourist attraction centers in the country.
Kenya tourist Board is targeting increasing tourists coming to Kenya from the current 1 million tourists to 3 million tourists in the year 2012. –kbc.co.ke