- Amusement Park at Bomas of Kenya. The park shall offer a variety of entertainment complexes that are designed to evoke distant or imaginary activities such as Kenyan safari tours, immigration, cultural homesteads and innovative attractions. This park will also be an amusement centre for family members, where parents and children can enjoy twists, turns, bumps, spins, and smiles all day long. Features of the proposed park include a cliff hanger, falling star, rattler, demolition disco, the scrambler, roller coaster, larger swings and a mini railway.
- Building new exhibitions galleries for the Nairobi National Museums The Nairobi National Museum has had its infrastructure refurbished and modernized through a grant from the European Union. However, it requires new, more relevant, engaging and exciting exhibitions. Accordingly, the new exhibitions will include cultural and natural artifacts which will give a more comprehensive account of Kenya’s culture and history.These displays will promote patriotism and national pride as well as be a major tourist attraction for domestic and international tourism. Other displays will include human origins (Kenya is a cradle of mankind), geology, ecology of Kenya and art.
- Development of World heritage sites as tourist destinations (Lamu, Mt. Kenya and Sibiloi) Worldwide World Heritage sites are major tourist destinations. Kenya has three World Heritage sites: Lake Turkana National Parks, Mt. Kenya and Lamu Old Town. The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) plans to develop Sibiloi National Park where the famous fossil site, Koobi Fora also known as the Cradle of Humankind exists.
- Health spas at Geothermal sites Health spas are tailored-made to provide relaxation and curative benefits to user. They also benefit visitors with chronic health complications as well as stress related problems. Moreover, health spas are ideally located in serene areas characterized by naturally occurring hot, spring water and geysers. The Great Rift Valley is a high potential area for these geysers whose mineral content has some curative element and serves as a core tourist attraction.
- Tourism Marketing and Recovery Strategy The objectives of this strategy are to remedy damage caused to tourism sector by the post election violence and to sustainably market Kenya as the preferred tourist destination. These will be achieved through media and brand building campaigns, destination familiarisation trips, source markets and products diversification, market research, and promotions.
- Classification of all tourism facilities The objective is to ensure that tourists get value for their money by the sector maintaining high standards with regard to tourist facilities and attractions. Additionally, there is need to maintain a highly regulated tourism business environment for investment and employment generation through the enforcement of both the Hotels and Restaurants Act and Tourist Industry Licensing Act.
- Reclaim Wildlife corridors and migratory routes (Mt Kenya and Kitengela) The establishment and maintenance of wildlife corridors and dispersal areas and biodiversity hot spots are significant to ensure continuity of viable ecosystems and capacity building for natural resource management. Securing the dispersal areas and wildlife corridors requires continuous efforts to encourage creation of conservancies. In critical cases, the government will intervene and provide funds to support easement programmes, lease land from the communities, and acquire prime wildlife dispersal areas.
- Senior citizen assisted living facilities/wellness centre Kenya has a great potential for the development of assisted living facilities due to her value added advantage of a pleasant climate and unique tourist attractions, including geothermal springs, rare species of flora and fauna and medicinal herbs. An estimated 16 per cent of the tourists arriving in Kenya are aged 50 years and above with the financial ability to stay in the country for a long duration if the right facilities are in place. These facilities could provide specialized services such as nursing homes and facilities for elderly people unable to live alone, yet without incapacitating medical problems that necessitates living in a nursing home.
Other key initiatives that would contribute to the expansion of tourism include:
- Increasing the share of local investors in the tourism industry in order to increase the proportion of returns earned and re-invested locally;
- Streamlining the management of the tourism sector in order to attract investment and increase returns through the development of an effective tourism policy;
- Developing a tourism Master Plan and a tourism regulatory framework; and
- Establishing a workable compensation scheme for economic losses caused by wildlife.
