Kenya receives cruise ship with 2,500 tourists as sector revival gathers steam

STORY: Kenya receives cruise ship with 2,500 tourists as sector revival gathers steam SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 3, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 4, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:35 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the cruise ship 2. SOUNDBITE (English): ALFRED MUTUA, Kenya's cabinet secretary for tourism and wildlife 3. various of tourists STORYLINE: A luxury cruise ship carrying 2,500 foreign tourists including 200 Chinese docked at Kenya's port city of Mombasa on Saturday as senior officials reiterated the sector's revival was on course after pandemic-related hiatus. Alfred Mutua, the cabinet secretary for Tourism and Wildlife, was among officials who received the cruise ship, MSC Poesia, whose 1,000 crew members included 20 from Kenya. SOUNDBITE (English): ALFRED MUTUA, Kenya's cabinet secretary for tourism and wildlife "As a country, we are very pleased because today we have 3,500 people who are on this ship, who are visiting our country Kenya. Last year, we received about 3,123 people who came