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Article: Kenya's tourism at turning point.
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- African Business
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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Kenya's tourism industry is undergoing a transformation - from the mass tourism of the seventies and eighties, when cheap package holidays were the norm, to the development of a quality-tourism product. Claire Footit reports.
Laissez-faire policies towards tourism development in the seventies and eighties made Kenyan tourism a victim of its own success: `Honeypots' at the main tourism attractions like the Masai Mara National Reserve gave rise to tales that Kenya was an overcrowded destination. Rampant off the road driving in parks gave the vegetation a hammering. Wildlife, especially predators, were hounded by snaphappy tourist vehicles.
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