“The government of Kenya and the private sector need to communicate very clearly as the mall attack is one specific incident that is now contained,”David Scowsills, head of the WTTC, a global forum for business leaders in the industry, told Agence France Press. “With the attack, there is no impact on the wider travel and tourism in Kenya as most of the tour places are outside the main city,” Scowsill added. Kenya is the richest country in Africa’, but even though half of its population lives on less than one dollar a day. The country has been facing several problems related to tourism in the past. In the year 1998 it was rocked by a car bomb attack which killed around 213 and another dip in the tourism was in 2008, when ethnic violence wracked the country after presidential elections. Scowsill said the drop in the tourism is due to the attack on the mall by the Somali armed group Al-Shabab and he believes that the effect will not be permanent. “With these kinds of incident, tourism usually dip for two to three months and then it again starts to bounce back,” he said. “ I expect that within six months, Kenya tourism will be back to normal if all the communications and proper initiative is been take to bring back, without letting any further incident.”
“The government of Kenya and the private sector need to communicate very clearly as the mall attack is one specific incident that is now contained,”David Scowsills, head of the WTTC, a global forum for business leaders in the industry, told Agence France Press. “With the attack, there is no impact on the wider travel and tourism in Kenya as most of the tour places are outside the main city,” Scowsill added. Kenya is the richest country in Africa’, but even though half of its population lives on less than one dollar a day. The country has been facing several problems related to tourism in the past. In the year 1998 it was rocked by a car bomb attack which killed around 213 and another dip in the tourism was in 2008, when ethnic violence wracked the country after presidential elections. Scowsill said the drop in the tourism is due to the attack on the mall by the Somali armed group Al-Shabab and he believes that the effect will not be permanent. “With these kinds of incident, tourism usually dip for two to three months and then it again starts to bounce back,” he said. “ I expect that within six months, Kenya tourism will be back to normal if all the communications and proper initiative is been take to bring back, without letting any further incident.”