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    "content": "our country, Kenya will come up on the second page, yet we are the best in it. This is because we have not done search engine optimization of what our country has to offer the world. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion. Since we are a world that is now driven by data information, we want the Ministry of Tourism, not to try and do the same thing the same old way as it has always been done, but actually redesign our approach to tourism. I hope that this will be the last time I will talk about it, because the Government is now treating our rugby team better. They once removed the Brand Kenya logo from their kits and said that they could not sponsor them anymore. They need to realize that the most beautiful thing about our country is the people, and that is what people love when they come here. Anyone out there who has come to Kenya will tell you that Kenya is the warmest country with most hospitable people that you will ever find. Let us get creative about our tourism and our people. Madam Temporary Speaker, let us talk about urban tourism. I am not talking about taking tourists to Kibera and telling them about the projects that we are doing that need funding. They need to understand the culture and the lifestyle of a country with more than 43 communities. This is a country where you can move, on the same day, from the most beautiful sandy beaches to the most exotic forest in Kakamega. You can then move to Maasai Mara; see the big four animals and come to Nairobi and see the matatu culture, the arts and music at the Kenya National Theatre. They can see all of these in one country. They can also go to Turkana and see where their ancestors came from. It is a beautiful country. I am glad that we have people like Mr. Mucheru, who worked with Google, and other young people who are innovative. The Ministry can tell these young people to give them their ideas on how we can integrate technology and tourism in our country. They can create hacker spaces. If we put them together, give them facilities and the equipment that they require, they will come up with amazing tools and innovations. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was in a place called Palo Alto, in San Francisco; what they call the Silicon Valley. I told them that I am from the Silicon Savanna – Kenya. They asked me: “Why is it that the kind of innovation that comes from Kenya is much better than what comes out of their country? I told them that the world has changed, but the tools are the same. The computer used in New York or San Francisco, is the same as the one being used in Narok by a young boy. We have internet but our needs are different.Necessity being the mother of invention, the kind of innovation that we are coming up with in this part of the world is world changing. Let us now channel it to be innovation that will raise the flag of our country and take our tourism numbers high. I hope that the Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industrialization will interact with this Motion. They should stop accepting the mediocrity of being told that we want to get 2 million visitors, while Turkey got 42 million visitors in 2014. In fact, when they had issues to do with security and there was a slump, at their very worst, they had 25 million visitors. Surely, there is something that we are not doing. Madam Temporary Speaker, with that, I second."
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