Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mass Tourism; Kenya
- Why People Visit Kenya
- 700,000 visitors a year
- Adventure Tourism
- Wildlife Safaris - Big 5
- Tribal Culture -
Masai Tribe
- Masai Mara -
wildebeest migration
- Beach Tourism
- Mombasa
- Warm Climate all year - on
the Equator
- Scenery
- Mt. Kenya
- Lake Victoria
- Great Rift Valley
- National Parks and
Reserves - 23
- Maintaining Tourism
- The Tourist board and Ministry of
Tourism have launched an
advertising campaign in Russia
- 'Magical Kenya'
- Infrastructure
- Airstrips will be built in Ruma and
Mount Elgon National Parks to
improve accessibility
- £8 million spent to improve roads,
bridges and airstrips
- Visa fees for adults cut by 50% in 2009
- No fees for children under 18 to
encourage families to visit
- Positives
- Economic
- Tourism contributes to
15% of Kenya's GDP
- In 2003 around 219,000 people
worked in the tourist industry
- Social
- Cultures and Traditions of the
Maasai tribe are preserved e.g.
traditional dances for tourists
- Environmental
- Entry fees to national park help
fund maintenance of the parks to
protect wildlife
- Negatives
- Economic
- Only 15% of money earned through
tourism goes to locals. The rest goes to
big companies
- Social
- Some Massai tribespeople were forced
off their land to create tourist attractions
- Kenyan Muslims are offended by the
way female tourists dress e.g. bikinis
- Environmental
- Vegetation destroyed by safari vehicles, causing soil erosion
- Wild animals affected - cheetahs change hunting
behaviour to avoid crowds of tourists
- Coral reefs in the Malindi Marine National Park
have been damaged by tourist boats anchoring