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    "content": "culture, as a country, can be showcased and artifacts from different communities bought. If you go out of this jurisdiction, you will find that many countries have such centers, where people visit and get the artifacts from particular communities in those countries. For example, the Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC) could have artifacts, as opposed to going to Kariakor or other funny places. They can be found in a decent place and fetch good prices, as opposed to, for example, buying a Maasai ushanga at Ksh100 or Ksh200. The other issue I want to bring out is that of e-visa programme in our country. If you go to some countries, you may not even get Visa. That is why we end up appointing honorary Consulars in various parts of the country. Why can we not have an e-Visa programme, where a tourist can sit in the farthest part of this world and get a Visa to Kenya, without going through any embassy or honorary consul? That way, we can be able to increase tourist attractions in this country. The issue of establishing regional agreements, for example, when we have regional agreements---. I remember when I was in the previous Parliament, we visited several countries but the embassies came up with good agreements within the missions but unfortunately, those inter-countries agreements are not implemented at all. Some do not reach the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and some are just thrown in archives. If we have those kinds of regional agreements, it will be able to improve tourism attraction in our country. The linkages with countries that are performing well are very critical. For example, we have various jurisdictions that have better facilities or organized tourism sites or tourism strategies in improving the economy in their countries. Do we have those kinds off interlinkages with those countries so that we can be able to improve our tourism attraction and revenue collection? The other issue I wanted to bring up is budgetary allocation. I remember 20 years ago, the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) used to get a lot of allocation and they also collected a lot of revenue. Today, if you go to the KWS, it is a dead institution. We cannot expect the KWS and other institutions to perform when they do not have facilitation to generate revenue. As a country, we really need to refocus how our institutions are doing, more so a place like KWS where the budgetary allocation should be increased. Finally, you will find that some tourists’ main purpose in visiting our country is camp sites, which are in very few game reserves and parks. Why can we not have camp sites even in our own villages, in areas we come from? A Maasai or a Borana or a western manyatta; where they can be able to interact with the communities. We should not restrict ourselves to those camp sites in game reserves, national parks and other areas. With those few remarks, I support the Motion, thank you."
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