Tourism earnings from international arrivals in Kenya 2005-2022
international visitor arrivals in Kenya declined sharply, and, consequently, the sector’s revenue fell to 89 billion KSh (598 million U.S. dollars). The drop interrupted an upgoing trend in place since 2015. From that year onward, the country’s tourism industry had recorded an annual growing revenue, after a slow down due to an upsurge in violent terrorist attacks in 2012.
Earnings from international arrivals in Kenya amounted to 268.1 billion Kenyan shillings (KSh), around 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, in 2022. This represented an increase of some 83 percent in comparison to the previous year. In 2020, the number of