Tweet to Brand Kenya: Look beyond the Mara

• Kenya is the land of opportunities, a beacon of transparency and integrity where corruption has never been proven in a court of law. Surely, these qualities — and many more others — would woo even the most picky of tourists into our land!

We have hospitals, or, generally, the health care system, which can be of great interest to tourists and investors alike. While the former can watch real medical dramas at the emergency and casualty wards of our public hospitals, the investors can see how they can invest in more private hospitals whose charges can give one a heart attack and lead to his being admitted, then charged an arm, a leg and many other body organs — and that might not even cover the cost of a few hours’ stay in a general ward of a private hospital in Kenya.

One of the most unique tourist attractions can be students of public universities. In which other country do students stone motorists, loot and bring business in the capital city to a standstill because one of them lost a pen, or because one of them was dumped by his girlfriend?

With such tourist attractions, visitors can avoid the tiring journeys to national parks that offer nothing else but wild animals that they can watch from the comfort of their living rooms, thanks to documentaries aired on satellite television channels.

Ideally, BKB can find many unique things that will make its work easier. It just needs to look in the right places, like our foreign embassies where the political appointees who are our envoys make very good tourist attractions.