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    "content": "structured. Those who are coming in as tourists must spend, because we need to have our economy supported by visitors. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other issue is that we must ensure that our visitors have lasting memories. They must leave this country feeling there was a special touch. If you visit Bangkok, it is renown for its traditional healing massages. Everybody visiting there will be given an invitation. In this country, we are rich in the kind of food that we offer. However, you will never get a tourist coming to Kenya to taste our food. We have the very famous Bama Market where you find nyama choma . Instead of the Government converting that into a market that can welcome our international visitors, we are moving towards closing that market. That is not the way it should work. I once visited Fiji and the first thing you will be told there is that the first tourist attraction is to visit the Fijian villages, where you will be offered Fiji traditional food. That is the only way the Fijian people will say we received international guests; and that is how it should be for us, as a Country. Madam Temporary Speaker, am looking forward to a time when visitors come to this Country, they will be told that they must visit Kisumu and enjoy ohangla music. That is what will give us a unique identity and attract tourists from our neighboring countries like Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa. We cannot continue doing it the traditional way. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you visit Hong Kong, one of the leading attractions for international guests are the trams. When I look at how unexploited the Mai Mahiu terrain is, I wonder. This is because that is what is in Hong Kong, where people queue for an average of 2 hours before you can get a chance on the tram. When you ask about the kind of revenues being generated for that Country from that tourist attraction, it is amazing. What this Government needs to do is to move away from these traditional tourism destinations of safari s to go and watch elephants. We need to encourage investors to move into this Country and do other investments that will attract more tourists. When people come with their families, they do not want to just go and see the elephants and lions; they also want to take their children to recreational parks, where they will have memorable experiences. We can tap into that potential, because I do not think there is any country in the East African Community (EAC) which has gone ahead to have those kinds of attractions. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must challenge the Government to improve our airport. The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi receives an average of about 100,000 visitors; while New York is doing about 20 million. How can we say that we want to be competitive in the international market when the plan that we had in the 60’s – of building two runways at the JKIA – has not been implemented almost fifty years later? New York already has a number of international airports and tourists can either land in the John F. Kennedy International Airport or LaGuardia International Airport. The same is true for Britain. Therefore, I want to challenge our Government to think outside the box. They need to improve our infrastructure – from our roads to the airport – so that tourists coming to this country can have an incentive of coming back again. 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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