Tourism

Kenya Coast Portal
Section: 
Reviews

Category: 
Economy

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Number of pages: 
21

Author/ Editor: 
Sindiga I. †

Year of publication: 
2000

Print title: 
Sindiga I. (2000). Tourism. In Hoorweg J., Foeken D. & Obudho R. eds. Kenya Coast Handbook: Culture, resources and development in the East African littoral. (pp.223-236). Hamburg: LIT Verlag.

Summary/abstract: 
Although tourism is an important economic activity at the Kenya coast, its contribution to the development of the region is rather small. Most of the large tourism enterprises are owned, managed and controlled by foreign or national interests with little participation by the indigenous people. As tourism proceeded at the coast without planning, it has weak backward and forward linkages with the local economy. Also, tourism has generated a myriad socio-cultural and environmental problems. Sustainable tourism development must address these problems and encourage local people in the business.