The number of tourists visiting Kenya in the first four months of 2010 rose to 336,179 from 289,518, led by arrivals from Britain, the United States and Italy, the Kenya Tourist Board (KTB) said on Monday.
Tourism, the third largest foreign exchange earner after horticulture and tea exports, was one of the sectors hardest hit by the country’s bloody post-election crisis in early 2008 and the global economic slowdown.
“We could have had more had the Iceland volcano not erupted,” Michael Riungu, from the KTB’s research and development department, told a news conference.
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