Travel firm says Kenya 'joking' about tourism figures
Tourists at the seafront of the Indian Ocean on July 28, 2014.
What you need to know:
- TPS says violent attacks by militant Islamists have scared away far more tourists than the authorities admit.
- Its own survey for the first half of the year showed business at the coast fell by 30-50 per cent on last year.
- Tourist arrival figures for the first half of the year will be released in the next three weeks, KTB said.
A leading Kenyan hotel chain has disputed official figures for tourist arrivals, saying violent attacks by militant Islamists have scared away far more tourists than the authorities admit.
The Kenya Tourist Board said arrivals in the first four months of the year were down four per cent from a year earlier to 381,000.
TPS Eastern Africa, which operates the Serena chain of hotels, luxury lodges and tented camps, said in a weekend statement: "We must be joking!"
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