(eTN) – Effective January 19, the Minister of Tourism, Najib Balala, appointed one of Kenya’s hospitality grandmasters, David Stogdale, to the Board of Directors of the Kenya Tourist Board (KTB) it was learned over the weekend.
Looking back at a long and distinguished career in key positions of Kenya’s hospitality industry for the past 35 years, his appointment is generally seen as a further injection of professionalism into the top policy level of the Kenya Tourist Board where he joins such cadres as John Cleave, CEO of Mombasa Air Safaris, and Mahmud Janmohamed, CEO of Serena Hotels.
Kenya tourism had a record year in 2011, and the country will be celebrating its 50th anniversary of independence in December 2013, allowing for detailed planning during 2012 to then deliver an extraordinary program of promotions, marketing, and PR. This poses both opportunities, as well as challenges, for KTB and Kenya’s tourism sector, which has in recent years substantially diversified its range of products, introduced new upmarket safari and beach resorts properties, and opened new circuits in hitherto less explored parts of the country, in particular Western Kenya, now on the score sheet since the successful relocation of 21 rhinos to Ruma National Park, previously known as Lambwe Valley.
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- Looking back at a long and distinguished career in key positions of Kenya's hospitality industry for the past 35 years, his appointment is generally seen as a further injection of professionalism into the top policy level of the Kenya Tourist Board where he joins such cadres as John Cleave, CEO of Mombasa Air Safaris, and Mahmud Janmohamed, CEO of Serena Hotels.
- This poses both opportunities, as well as challenges, for KTB and Kenya's tourism sector, which has in recent years substantially diversified its range of products, introduced new upmarket safari and beach resorts properties, and opened new circuits in hitherto less explored parts of the country, in particular Western Kenya, now on the score sheet since the successful relocation of 21 rhinos to Ruma National Park, previously known as Lambwe Valley.
- Kenya tourism had a record year in 2011, and the country will be celebrating its 50th anniversary of independence in December 2013, allowing for detailed planning during 2012 to then deliver an extraordinary program of promotions, marketing, and PR.
