Hoteliers along the beach have put up sun beds along the beach adjacent to their properties, introduced full waiter services to enable clients get served at the beach.
Under the beach management programme championed by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), frequent patrols have been initiated; daily beach clean-up exercise and reorganization of beach vendors making the beach friendly to tourists.
“It was fantastic to see the beach fully occupied by clients enjoying the beach life without being hassled by anyone,” Catrin Schwerring General Manager Bahari Beach Hotel Mombasa, said.
KWS has started a Sh150 million six-month pilot beach management programme to revive Kenya's coastal area as key tourist destination.
The programme aims at restoring the competitive edge of Kenya’s coastal area as a tourism destination while ensuring that the marine and beach tourism products are sustained.
Kenya Tourist Board (KTB) says the beach product is a key attraction to the coast and termed the renewed efforts to improve the product laudable.
This Programme is expected to address some of the emerging threats to beach tourism in Kenya holidays which include harassment of tourists, beach insecurity, beach degradation and youth unemployment” said the managing director.
Sharon C
Kenya holidays
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