Kenya
eBizguides Kenya
Wildlife country
Le guiaré a lugares increíbles
The concept of eBizguides
eBizguides aims to provide on-the-ground information about the country economic performance, the main investment opportunities and acute business intelligence research about who are the leaders and influencers of the country and which are the top 100 companies. All you need to know about doing business in a country and in a unique publication that also includes a small tourism guide. eBizguides are the world's leading business intelligence guidebooks. Click to read more.
Finance
Kenya has long possessed the largest and most technically advanced financial system in East Africa. The country boasts an extensive network of commercial banks, both locally and foreign-owned, serving most of Kenya’s urban areas; as a result many Kenyans are comfortable with and knowledgeable of bank instruments, thus reducing the country’s total dependence on coins and notes.
Tourism
Tourism in Kenya is mainly based on natural attractions, which include wildlife in its natural habitats as well as idyllic beaches. Approximately 10% of the country has been set aside for the conservation of wildlife and biodiversity. Tourism plays an important role in the socio-economic development of Kenya. It is a major source of employment as it is estimated than over 136,000 Kenyans are directly employed in the sector and 1.5 million Kenyans indirectly derive their income through tourism.
INVESTMENT
As it has an open market economy, Kenya proves “easy access” for investors in various areas – there is lack of government control, free movement of money and people, and access to a competent human resource base. The communication sector has been progressively liberalised and there are plans to have a second fixed-line operator as well as a third mobile-phone operator. This, together with the liberalisation of bandwidth access, makes communication with the rest of the world much easier from Kenya. Mombasa, East Africa’s main port since the days of the Portuguese traders, has proved to be a major access point to most of the countries in East and Central Africa. Despite a number of problems in the recent past, Mombasa has still been in a position to handle significant levels of imports and exports in the region.
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Kenya
Beautiful and wild, Kenya brings together diversity and contrasts in all senses. From its different landscapes to its mix of people, Kenya has long been a country for lost souls and those eager to learn about life on the African continent.
People flock to Kenya from all over the world. They are all excited and searching for something of their own; yearning for and thinking that it will be in the bush, in the nakedness of nature, that they will find it. Some come as adventurers camping in the middle of the bush, looking out for their long desired encounter with the king of beasts; others come as romantic colonialists wanting to retreat back in a time when life seemed uncomplicated and rich. Whatever the reasons, these people are all taking a break from themselves, or are running away from an all too familiar life, to begin a new one, in what some Kenyans call the New Frontier. The frontier spirit that emerges, among the Kenyans and visitors alike, stems from the fact that there is an enormous space still to be discovered. One can only speak of this “space” here in Kenya.
