NAIROBI (Kyodo) With its natural beauty, wildlife safari tours and numerous golf courses, Kenya is stepping up calls for Japanese to visit the country through such entities as JTB Corp., All Nippon Airways Co. and the Japan Association of Travel Agents.
Behind the move is the fact that the number of Japanese visiting Kenya has dropped sharply over the last year, especially after the government issued warnings about traveling to the country amid the recent deadly political and ethnic violence.
Kenyan tourism officials say only 13,000 Japanese visited the east African country in 2007, compared with 15,000 the previous year, a 12 percent drop.