International Tourism Demand and its Determinants in Kenya.

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dc.contributor.authorMbui, David Kirimi
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-26T09:46:04Z
dc.date.available2015-02-26T09:46:04Z
dc.date.issued2015-02-26
dc.description.abstractTourism is a major contributor to economic growth in many countries. In Kenya, tourism is a significant economic activity contributing greatly to the gross domestic product, foreign exchange earnings as well as employment. In 2011, the sector contributed 13.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product, about 18.6 per cent in foreign exchange earnings while creating close to a million jobs. The country's long term economic development blue print, the Kenya Vision 2030, has identified tourism as the sector that will enable the country achieve a double digit economic growth rate thus propelling the country into a globally competitive and prosperous nation by the year 2030. Despite efforts in marketing the country abroad through the Tourism board, the sector remains highly susceptible to perceived or actual risks associated with travel. For the sector to play its rightful role in contributing to growth, the factors that affect it ought to be empirically investigated so that those with negative effects can be addressed for the sector to achieve its envisaged target. The purpose of this study therefore was to empirically investigate how various factors influence international tourism demand in Kenya. The study estimated the demand for Kenya's tourism from UK, America and Indian tourists using the double-log linear model through Generalized Least Squares estimation technique. Panel data for the period 1980- 2012 was used for the analysis
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/12312
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.titleInternational Tourism Demand and its Determinants in Kenya.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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