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A black heron walking on Mombasa Road, Nairobi, in the early evening, captured the moment Kenya had run out of tourists who would pay top dollar to travel, drive a 4X4 truck and sleep in luxury hotels just to set eyes on the bird.
In April, only 3,101 foreigners landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport a 97 per cent decline from last year.
Between January and April, there were 392,691 arrivals almost half the 619,698 tourists recorded in the same period last year.
Kenya, which relies on tourism for 10 per cent of the country’s GDP and 9 per cent of the total employment, was in trouble.
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