Kenya Tourist Board
Managing director says visitors who are intending to visit Kenya are simply
anxious to know the exact cause of the blast and the security situation in the
country.
Speaking during a
tourism stakeholder forum in Nairobi, the director believes that tourism may
not necessarily be affected by the attack if the situation is handled well,
adding that the sector has already gone through tougher situations in the past.
"We are getting
a lot of calls from the source markets, and already as we speak, we have
reassured the market that all is well. Whenever there is a vacuum of
information, people start speculating, and we do not want that. So as
information unfolds we keep informing them what is exactly happening and the
counter measures we are putting in place to ensure that Kenya is a safe
destination.
He has however
criticized the Kenyan media for blowing things out of control on Monday and
whenever there are similar incidences before full investigations, adding that
this has caused unnecessary panic to the outsiders. "If you look at other
destinations like New York City, how many murders happen every single minute?
When you look at Europe, there are so many crises especially when it comes to
markets that I would not mention, where we have some terrorist attacks.”
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