Nairobi: Kenya has been witnessing a surge in tourist arrivals from the UAE, recording a 77.4 per cent rise in the first six months of the year compared to the same period in 2014, according to Kenya Tourism Board (KTB).
TradeArabia News Service, TANS, a portal for business information and trade news, has quoted the figures released by the KTB, which say a total of 24,462 people visited Kenya from the UAE between January and June, compared to 13,782 in 2014, which made the UAE hold 7 per cent of Kenya’s total tourist market share, up from 3.2 per cent in 2014, and Kenya’s third largest source market for tourism in the world, behind the UK and USA.
