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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, research is very critical. How do we improve our tourist attraction areas? How do we expand them? For example in Isiolo, there have been only three places that tourists can go to ever since I was young. How do we improve this situation because a lot of resources are available? There are a lot of opportunities that need to be explored to ensure that tourists benefit from what we have in our country. Therefore, this Motion is timely in helping our people to benefit from tourism, and also to improve the tourism sector. Madam Temporary Speaker, accessibility to clean water in the areas tourists visit is another issue. There are people who fear that if they drink water from a tap in a certain place – Isiolo, Narok, Maasai Mara or Kajiado – they will become sick. How do we ensure that we have clean water in the areas our tourists are targeting? How can we improve the road network, maybe going to North Eastern? I know that there are so many tourist attractions there. For instance, there are animals in North Eastern, especially in Garissa, Wajir and Mandera; and there are a lot of tourist attraction sites. However, how many people are ready to explore those areas to make sure they are open for tourist attraction? We are losing a lot. If those areas are opened, they will provide job opportunities for our people and also improve our revenue collection. There is no improvement in the revenue collected from the parks we already have. We have not diversified the ways of collecting revenue; we are still relying on the old system. If this Motion is clearly structured, it can advise the relevant institutions. This will ensure that we have proper mechanisms in place to improve our tourist attractions. I come from the Borana Community. How many Kenyans know about the Borana people, despite having a lot of research and institutions that we can bring out how many communities live in Kenya? The communities that are commonly known in Kenya are the Kikuyu, Luo and Kalenjin because they have been ruling this country. What happens to the rest of the communities; the 42 tribes in Kenya? Their cultures can actually be appreciated. They have rich cultures that tourists can get to know and also establish history out of that. Do we have mechanisms in terms of the number of tourists that come to this country? What kind of information do they carry out of this country? For example, when you land in Heathrow, London, the country already has your history. They know the kind of person you are, and where you are heading to. When tourists land in Kenya, we do not care. We leave them to the institutions that bring them to this country. I think we need to improve in terms of even getting feedback from the tourists. Madam Temporary Speaker, we can make tourism one of the units within the curriculum from the primary level. The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has wildlife clubs within their institutions. However, in most of the areas they do not even know why we have them. But if we want to improve on our revenue collection, tourism should be a core unit within learning institutions, where communities appreciate in our country and develop how we can improve tourist attractions and the revenue we earn from the tourists that come into our country. Madam Speaker Temporary, how do we improve our market? We have many good artifacts in our communities. However, we do not have a resource center where our 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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