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1
Q

Where is Kenya?

A

Eastern Africa.

2
Q

Where is Kenya in regards to the India Ocean?

A

East.

3
Q

Where is Kenya in regards to Ethiopia and Somalia?

A

They are north.

4
Q

Where is Kenya in regards to Tanzania?

A

It is south.

5
Q

Where is Kenya in regards to Uganda?

A

It is north west.

6
Q

Why did Kenya become a tourist resort?

A

Natural environment.

National parks.

7
Q

Give examples of where tourists like to visit in Kenya?

A

Masai Mara.
Coral reefs.
Mt Kenya.

8
Q

How many Kenyans are employed in hotels as guides?

A

180,000.

9
Q

How many people were indirectly employed?

A

300,000.

10
Q

Why has tourism helped?

A

To fund local facilities.

Schools.

11
Q

Service sector jobs are created where ?

A

In hotels and restaurants.

12
Q

What do farmers have?

A

A market for their produce.

13
Q

What is tourism improving?

A

The standard of living of people throughout Kenya.

14
Q

What does tourists money help improve?

A
Government improve roads.
Hospitals.
Water supply.
Drainage.
Electricity.
15
Q

How many people provide food and souvenirs?

A

380,000.

16
Q

Natural environment is becoming destroyed of what?

A

Building airports, roads and hotels for tourists.

17
Q

What is there pressure on?

A

The landscape from minibuses.

18
Q

The destruction of what else?

A

Coral reefs.

19
Q

Visitor numbers have done what?

A

Went down.

20
Q

Most of the jobs created by tourism are what?

A

Badly paid.

21
Q

What happens when tourists don’t come?

A

People are out of work.

22
Q

Where is development only concentrated at?

A

Holiday areas.

23
Q

Improving infrastructure is expensive, so what happens?

A

It is often dependant on foreign investment.

24
Q

What happens to the profit made from tourism?

A

It does not stay in Kenya, it goes to large hotel companies.

25
Q

What happened to local fisherman?

A

They are banned from fishing in the National Maritime Park near Mombasa.

26
Q

Farmland is taken of local people, why?

A

Create game parks.

Coastal hotels.

27
Q

What is happening to crops?

A

Eaten and flattened by animals.

28
Q

There is changes to what?

A

Local cultures and traditions.

29
Q

Who have been driven of their land?

A

Masai.

30
Q

There has been a creation of what?

A

Marine parks to protect coral reefs.

31
Q

Education of what?

A

Tourists .

Not to take or trample on the coral.

32
Q

What have been created so boats can drop their anchors?

A

Pontoons.

33
Q

Where are they attempting to develop tourism?

A

In mountain, river and lake areas to reduce the impact of tourism in 2 key areas and spread the economic benefits.

34
Q

Increase what?

A

Entry fees to parks like Masai Mara to reduce visitor numbers.

35
Q

Increase the involvement of what?

A

Tribes people.