The tourist industry as become a keystone of Kenya’s economy, acquiring the role of first national industry, which makes bigger profits compared to coffee export and is the major source of foreign exchange. Its contribution to GDP of 12% renders it the third most important productive industry. Kenya gets one million tourists every year, with a hotel able to accommodate over 9 million beds. The fact that tourism in Kenya is mainly based on wildlife, authorities set to launch projects purposely for the preservation of wildlife against its natural enemies, for example, poaching and illegal traffic of animal groups. For many past years, the growth of tourism sector in the rest of African countries so much scares the health of Kenya’s tourist industry. The Kenyan government tries to return this course by strongly investing in hotel infrastructure and communications.

The tourist industry is extremely sensitive to political and social lack of stability. For many years, tourism gave up on Kenya because of ethnic riots, the bombing of the US Embassy in 1998 and the upswing of crime in the cities and tourist places. In 1999, the industry recovered the rising trend and good repercussions are forecasted for the year 2000