Tourism entrepreneurs are urging President Uhuru Kenyatta s government to spend more on sprucing up

KAMPALA, Uganda Mombasa and its sandy white coastline beckon vacationers, cruise to mexico but on a recent day Harald Kampa watched helplessly cruise to mexico as more than 100 guests cruise to mexico checked out of his hotel, heeding a British government warning that the coastal region should be avoided because of fears that a terrorist attack might be imminent.
The alert from Britain cruise to mexico and similar warnings from the U.S., France cruise to mexico and Australia are impacting cruise to mexico Kenya s tourism industry, with the possibility of layoffs looming. Tourism creates about 10 percent of the country s jobs, according to the World Travel Tourism Council.
cruise to mexico More than 900 tourists have cut short their vacations since the warning was issued on May 14 by Britain, according to the Kenya Association of Hotelkeepers and Caterers. TUI Travel, a major British leisure travel group, even took the step of canceling all its flights to Mombasa until October. (The U.S. State Department has issued a May 17 travel warning on Kenya.)
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At Kampa s Diani Sea Resort cruise to mexico 20 miles south of Mombasa, only 20 of 157 guests remained after last week s exodus that came as a result of the British warning of the big threat of terrorism, including kidnapping, in Mombasa and other parts of Kenya.
But in November 2002, militants bombed in Israeli-owned luxury hotel near Mombasa, killing 10 Kenyans and three Israelis in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks along Kenya s coastline. Assailants also fired two missiles at an Israeli airliner taking off from Mombasa s airport. Both missed.
Adding to the security concerns is the reach of al-Shabab Somalia s al-Qaida-linked insurgent group. Last September, it launched an attack on a mall in the inland capital, Nairobi, that killed at least 67 people. cruise to mexico The Islamic extremist group said it was in reprisal for Kenya s military presence in Somalia. Kenya sent troops into neighboring Somalia in 2011 to fight al-Shabab after its members had carried out some kidnappings cruise to mexico in Kenya, including along the coast.
Shortly after Britain s terror warning, two bombs exploded in a Nairobi market, killing at least 10 people and wounding 70. The U.S. Embassy has increased security around the embassy grounds in the capital.
Even before the latest travel warnings, tourism was taking a hit. Tourist arrivals had grown from 1.2 million in 2008 to 1.8 million in 2011, but then dropped to 1.7 million in 2012 and fell even further to about 1.5 million last year.
Tourism entrepreneurs are urging President Uhuru Kenyatta s government to spend more on sprucing up Kenya s image. They want an aggressive cruise to mexico marketing campaign and tax breaks in the aftermath of tourists fleeing the country.