{"id":1984,"date":"2009-12-14T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T08:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2009-12-14T10:30:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T08:30:39","slug":"kenya-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/kenya-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya backs beleaguered Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kenya will continue targeting travellers from the UAE despite the furore regarding Dubai\u2019s financial problems, according to the Kenyan Minister for Tourism, Najib Balala.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/kenya-dubai.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1985\" title=\"Kenya backs beleaguered Dubai\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/kenya-dubai-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Kenya backs beleaguered Dubai\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Speaking at a press conference in Dubai last week, Balala highlighted the East African country&#8217;s plans to target more tourists from GCC countries, despite acknowledging Dubai had become a focal point of the worldwide economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Balala pointed to close economic ties between the two countries and the Kenya Tourist Board&#8217;s &#8216;Kenya Week&#8217; promotion \u2014 described by the Minister as a chance to &#8220;strengthen the bones of confidence between Kenya and the UAE&#8221; \u2014 as reasons to remain positive in spite of worldwide economic concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UAE is the top trading partners with Kenya so we\u2019re not put off by the recent news and we sympathise with what\u2019s happening,\u201d said Balala. \u201cWe think this [negative news] will pass in the next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInbound tourist figures from Dubai to Kenya have increased by 20% in the last nine months and have grown by more than 40% since 2007,\u201d he commented.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry\u2019s figures, the UAE accounted for 36% of incoming tourist arrivals in 2008 \u2014 the largest single group from any country.<\/p>\n<p>More than 11,000 tourists made the two and a half hours flight to Nairobi in 2008 and numbers are currently up by 22% from last year \u2014 holidays accounting for at least 50% of this figure.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya will continue targeting travellers from the UAE despite the furore regarding Dubai\u2019s financial problems, according to the Kenyan Minister for Tourism, Najib Balala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}