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    "content": "the Senate resolves that the Senate Committee on Education investigates this matter with a view to: - (1) identifying strategies to ensure that the affected students are able to access education as soon as possible; (2) outlining preventative measures to ensure that more students are not affected by the floods and insecurity; and, (3) Submitting a Report to the Senate within sixty (60) days outlining the short and long-term strategies, that are being put in place to ensure that schools in flood and insecurity prone areas are not affected in the future. IMPROVEMENT OF KENYA’S RANKING IN WORLD TRAVEL AND TOURISM COMPETITIVENESS INDEX THAT, AWARE that the Ministry of Tourism have developed and published the Kenya National Tourism Blueprint 2030 in May 2017; FURTHER AWARE that Kenya Tourism Agenda 2018 – 2022, launched in April 2018, establishes the foundation for the National Tourism Blueprint 2030 and is the tool for initiating the components of the Blue Print; ALSO, AWARE that the contribution of travel and tourism to Kenyan GDP stood at 9.7 per cent in 2017, up from the 9.3 per cent previous year; COGNIZANT that in the next 10 years every industry will be changed by technology; ALSO, AWARE that Kenya Tourism Board has partnered with Google, Safaricom, Kenya Wildlife Service and Tourism Finance Corporation to create new digital content for local tourism; CONCERNED that Kenya tourism industry’s potential is underutilized; AWARE that Kenya’s position in World Economic Forum’s Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index Ranking is 80 out of 136 in 2017, having improved by 2 points from 2015, while having currently the lowest score in cultural resources and business travel with 1.6 points out of 7; FURTHER CONCERNED that majority of the solutions proposed by the tourism agenda are brick and mortar type and not addressing the trends; noting that in less than two years, the share of online booking globally has grown from 9 per cent to almost 33 per cent and the lucrative and fast-growing segment of business tourism; ALSO CONCERNED that Kenya will continue to attract only beach and park type tourists ignoring the large number of conference and business travellers, who largely never leave Nairobi and are offered minimal exposure to Kenya; The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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