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Disadvantages Of Tourism In Kenya

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Tourism in Kenya

Introduction

Tourism
Goeldner and Ritchie (1995) define tourism as a short term movement of people to places other than their normal place of residence and work, including the activities of persons travelling to and staying in locations outside their places of residence and work for not more than twelve months for the purpose of: leisure (recreation, vacation, health, study, religion and sport); and business family, mission and meetings.

KENYA
Kenya is a country in the eastern part of Africa, it is very close to the equator. The country is boarded with neighboring countries such as South Sudan in the north-west, Somalia in the north-east, Uganda in the west and Tanzania in the south. The eastern part of Kenya is surrounded …show more content…

The following are the economic advantages and disadvantages of the tourism sector in Kenya.

Advantages

Job Creation
Direct jobs: those are such as jobs in hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, airports, tourist offices, souvenir shops and game parks.
Indirect jobs: construction sector, entertainment industry, banks, craft industry, agricultural sector and food and beverage sectors.
The increase of jobs: direct and indirect employment opportunities in the tourism and travel industry have summed up to 543,500 jobs in the year 2014, this year 552,000 jobs were created from the tourism and travel industry in Kenya. Employment opportunities have increased thanks to the tourism sectors. Creating jobs for women and young people, this has contributed to the increase in foreign income, and improves the standards of living for the individual employed in this sector.

Increase in Exports
The number of tourist in Kenya has increased. This has contributed to an increase in exports in the country contributed by the increase in sales of domestic goods and service to foreigners (tourist) who visit the

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