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Kenya appears in many brochures. The Kenyan government has made tourist development a priority. It has spent money on building hotels, airports, safari lodges and all the other requirements for tourists from developed countries. The planes landing at Nairobi airport bring rich tourists from Europe, North America and Japan. Some come for Kenya’s fine beaches. Most are interested in the wildlife of East Africa. Lions, cheetahs, elephants and hippopotamuses are among the attractions.

Kenya’s tourist industry earns the country over £200 million per year, but tourism does bring problems for a developing country.

• Only 75% of the money spent by tourists stays in Kenya. The rest is taken by foreign companies which provide the hotels and the safaris.

• The tourist drinks Scotch whisky or Russian vodka. The hotels are fitted with American air-conditioning and Japanese lifts. The electrical system is Dutch and the fire control system is Italian. The safari vehicles are Japanese Land Cruisers. These imports cost Kenya vital foreign exchange.

• Kenya borrowed money from overseas to pay for the tourist developments, and much of the profits from tourism are spent in repaying the loans.

• There have been several armed attacks on tourists. The bad publicity hit Kenya’s tourist earnings because people were frightened off. It is risky to become over-dependent upon tourism.

Most of the jobs created for Kenyans are unskilled and poorly paid. Some complain that tourism is a new form of colonialism. Tourism has also come into conflict with Kenya’s rapid population growth. More mouths to feed means more demand for farmland. Already some Kenyans are demanding that the National Parks be opened up for farming.

(Retrieved from: STOTT, Trish & HOLT, Roger. First class. English for tourism. Oxford: OUP, 1995. (p. 71)

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