 I beseech, I beseech those who are really doing this demonstration at least to have mercy on this country and have mercy on the level of the economy where we are. We're trying to come up and you know with this demonstration we're seeing a lot of loss. Regarding the ongoing political tension in the country, how do you think it's affecting the tourism industry? Well it is really affecting the tourism sector and I actually guess this is the worst affected. As we can see we had quite a number of bookings in our tells across the country and they have already cancelled. I can say really I beseech, I beseech those who are really doing this demonstration at least to have mercy on this country and have mercy on the level of economy where we are. We're trying to come up and you know with this demonstration we're seeing a lot of loss with our businesses in the town and also with those of us who are running the hotels. We've seen a lot of cancellations and so as you heard our deputy president speak about it. We've lost billions of money in this town, Nairobi and most of other towns and we've seen massive you know destruction of property and I can tell you those whose property has been destroyed they're just out there and probably they could go even through the depression and we lose lives and therefore I want to beseech that we stop and really work together unite and work together to see our country prosper because the stage that Kenya is we are at a position that if we get it right at this moment Kenya will never be the same again. We're going to be actually the hub of Africa and we're going to share in so many things besides economy thank you. We contribute 10% of the GDP of this country and we employ one out of every new jobs in the globe is in the tourism. Well we're doing very well actually in domestic tourism because before we began we began our campaigns and actually we've seen the peak during the pandemic because you know the country was closed and there that's when Kenyans began traveling within the country and we contacted our campaign on the same and we have seen as you've heard we've seen improvement from 3 million bed nights to 5.5 million bed nights from the reports that I released just the other day in February so we've seen a lot of improvements and now I want to call on Kenyans actually during this festive the holiday that is coming and that when our children are at home let's take them and visit some of these parks I want to also announce to Kenya and the entire globe that we are going to receive within this week the last male northern white rhino and this is going to be sitting in our museums and we'll open our museums for viewing by public during the weekend therefore I ask all the Kenyans to come to our national museum and fill this last male northern white rhino that is going to be a savior if you are going to have another generation of it thank you very much ladies and gentlemen it's a great honor to be invited to join you today as we launch the holidays 2020 tourism fair at the Sarich center this venue has become an important exhibition center that has hosted some of the most significant tourism at all events in Kenya over the last that had years this makes it one of the longest running tourism fair not only in Kenya but in the region congratulations to the organizers congratulations to the organizers for making the holidays tourism fair and an important fixture in our tourism events calendar further the holidays tourism expo is one of the biggest private sector organized tourism expo in Kenya I take this opportunity to commend and appreciate the private sector for taking up a leading role in the growth of domestic tourism in Kenya the fair gets towards the safe of holiday packages to the domestic tourism market during the Easter break and the upcoming school holidays a low season is up to positions to pull large numbers of vacation shoppers who come together to seek new and diverse experiences in local tourism I invite Kenyans to visit the Sarich center between today and 26th of March to sum up the opportunities available at this tourism fair come and get to choose an Easter holiday package for yourself all for your family ladies and gentlemen domestic tourism is a key segment in domestic in our tourism strategy it has been instrumental in keeping the sector afloat during the two years of the copy pandemic my ministry through the Kenyan tourism board has also prioritized the marketing of domestic tourism we currently the fair you deserve a holiday campaign in partnership with the travel trade through the campaign we have been able to visit various destinations in our country including Machakos, Nakuru, Eldoret and Nyeri we also are going to be visiting Nanyuki and the coastal region the goal is to provide a platform for the sector to interact as well as to travel opportunities to Kenyans and at the same time highlights the attractions in these regions my ministry will continue to partner with the private sector in tourism marketing as well as in developing tourism experiences and products so that Magico Kenya can remain a competitive brand this destination globally my process during this opening event is a testimony to my ministry's desire to support the private sector learning initiatives such as this export as part of our continued efforts to export new markets for the growth and development of Kenyans tourism industry i believe that strategic partnerships with key stakeholders are crucial to competitive to complement government efforts in growing tourism sector to become bigger and better like to acknowledge the international exports of a larger including the just concluded itb baleen and how to vote travel march otm mobile trade trade fairs held earlier this year as well as our very own Magico Kenya expo travel expo said to be held later in the year i wish to assure the sector that we are currently doing well and future projections are posted accordingly to the latest data we released in February this year that six point six of the incoming visitors come for holiday in this country followed closely by those visiting friends and families at twenty seven point eight with those visiting their minds purposes following closely at that position at twenty seven point seven when it comes to revenue kenya bernard two eight point zero nine billion in 2022 as compared to kenya shillings 163 point five billion in 2019 even as the inbound tourists were slightly lower in 2022 when compared to 2019 this goes to show that it is all about quality and not quantity therefore product reinvention is key from the list of exhibitors i can see that they are always spread across our country and a few from our counties to maximize the potential of this country we must look at each other each county and the product they have to offer we have to we have to develop and showcase what each county and each sector has to offer and put them into blocks for instance the young generation is attracted in adventure sports tourism gastronomy and water sports we should therefore diversify our basket in terms of the products we offer accordingly to cater for the testings for the test of these generations finally ladies and gentlemen my ministry would like to express its gratitude to all of you here today for going the extra mile to ensure that you're surpassed the expectations of your clients i assure you that we are committed to working together with all of you and we are open to suggestions on how we can improve our cooperation to make our collective dream come true and become a reality it is now a simpler honor to declare that eight edition of holidays tourism fair 2023 officially open nervous thank you very much i'm really impressed between what i saw there and here exposed of this country and therefore i'm very grateful and thank you for giving me this opportunity to be here country especially with the recent demonstrations i want to assure you to ensure that the industry the travel and tourism industry profits prosperous in this country and therefore is my single country position as i can tell you the globe is watching at kenya let's maintain peace so that our businesses can grow so that our industry can grow thank you and god bless hi my name is Rachel of no crass hotels uh we are a brand of four hotels we have one hotel in muranga a town hotel with a capacity of 70 rooms uh in four conference halls the second one is no crass river in sargana with a capacity of 103 uh eight meeting halls the third one is the no crass and curry a very exclusive camp allocated along the nirini roby highway and the newest baby is no crass and curry sorry no crass silver oak embu with a capacity of 50 rooms and eight conference halls in all the hotels we do water sports that's rafting bungee jumping kayaking archery uh tour farms we as well organize for game drives that is all pajeta and uh we do team building we have very very spacious and huge grounds for wedding or any other celebratory event we are based in mount kenya that is muranga and sargana and we are here at sarit center for the 2023 our holidays expo karybuni hello viewers my name is uh george kamau from blue bay hotels zanzibar we are exhibiting at the sarit tourism fair we welcome you to come and see what we are offering we have two amazing properties in zanzibar we have blue bay beach resort and spa and sultan sands island resort they are based on the east coast of zanzibar two amazing facilities sharing a 500 meter beach front um we welcome you to come and give you more talk on a close up tell you more about the two properties we are organizing a flying package right now at the moment as a special for this um tourism expo um going at triple nine we would love to explain more to you we're organizing also discussions throughout zanzibar please come and experience we'll be here exhibiting from today 22nd up to 25th on sunday all our most welcome