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In general, crime rates in Kenya are much lower outside of Nairobi. Kenya is generally safe for tourist travel, provided they follow their country's travel advisory. However, robbery targeting tourists does occur. There is a dedicated police unit that deals with mitigating tourist target offences, thus decreasing the rate of their occurrence.
The tourism industry plays a vital role in Kenya’s economy, offering beach holidays along its Indian Ocean coastline and wildlife safaris inland. “Kenya has a simple message to humanity ...
Nairobi (/ n aɪ ˈ r oʊ b i / ny-ROH-bee) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to 'place of cool waters', a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census. [7] [8]
Aftermath at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. On 7 August, between 10:30 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. local time, suicide bombers in trucks laden with explosives parked outside the embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and almost simultaneously detonated. [12] 213 people were killed in the Nairobi blast, while 11 were killed in Dar es Salaam. [13]
Kenya is the world's 3rd largest exporter of cut flowers. [177] Roughly half of Kenya's 127 flower farms are concentrated around Lake Naivasha, 90 kilometres northwest of Nairobi. [177] To speed their export, Nairobi airport has a terminal dedicated to the transport of flowers and vegetables. [177]
In February 2014, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda issued an East African Tourist Visa. [8] The visa fee USD 100 and has no restrictions on nationality. It is a non-extendable multiple-entry 90-day visa that has to be first used to enter the country that issued it.
Kenya won the Best Leisure Destination award at the World Travel Fair in Shanghai, China, in April 2008. [8] The then permanent secretary in Kenya's Ministry of Tourism, Rebecca Nabutola, stated that the award "goes to testify that Kenya has a unique world-acclaimed tourism product. The recognition will no doubt boost Kenya's tourism and ...
Google Trikes are also being used for the first time to map popular tourist destinations, such as the scenic Chapman's Peak Drive and Table Mountain in Cape Town, Soccer City in Johannesburg, and the new Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban. Images of South Africa were made available on Google Street View on June 8, 2010.