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Starting a Tourism Business in Kenya
Kenya’s tourism sector is a thriving growth
industry, and presents many excellent opportunities for investment. We
encourage both local and foreign investment in tourism, as means of encouraging
development and alleviating poverty.
We actively encourage
diversification of our tourism product by seeking and promoting investment into
a varied range of tourism products and services in an equally diverse range of
locations.
We support the development of Community and
Eco-Tourism and projects that protect natural and cultural resources and
equitably share products with those communities with which they work.
Tourist businesses include:
HOTELS:
A Hotel means premises on which accommodation is supplied or available
for supply ,with or without food or services ,in exchange for money or
moneys worth and includes premises known as “ service “flats”, “service
apartment” , “beach cottages”, “holiday cottages ”, “game lodges”, and
“bandas” ; but does not include premises on which the only accommodation
supplied or available for supply is under a lease or licence of not less than
one month ,unless by prior arrangement the occupier may no, without penalty
,terminate that lease or license on less than one months notice.
To apply for a licence, please download the form here, and send the
completed form to:
If you would like specific information with
regard to this licence, please click
here to contact us.
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RESTAURANTS:
A Restaurant means any premises on which carried on the
business of supplying for reward any food or drink, but does not include:
- a bon afide works or staff canteen maintained ,for the use of persons
employed in any particular undertaking ,by that undertaking; or
- any
premises where food or drink is supplied only to persons who reside or board
at, or work at, such premises; or
- any portion of a licensed
hotel.
To apply for a licence, please download the form here, and send the
completed form to:
If you would like specific information
with regard to this licence, please click here to contact us.
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Tour Operators and other Businesses
The Ministry
of Tourism and Wildlife issues Regulated Tourist Licences
which are issued to various categories of tourist activities by the
Licensing Section in the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife as follows: -
Class “A” Enterprises
These are enterprises (whether carried on alone or in conjunction with some
other enterprise) and falling within one or more of the following classes.
A.1 Tour/Safari Operators
A.2
Motor Vehicles Hire
A.3
Local Air-Charter Companies
A.4 Travel
Agency (AITA appointed Agents)
A.5 Water
Sports
A.6 Balloon Operators
A.7
Boat excursions
A.8
Game Ranches
Class A enterprises shall
pay……………………Kshs. 8,000
To apply for a licence,
please download the form here and send the completed
form to:
If you would like specific information with regard to
this licence, please click
here to contact us.
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Class ‘B’
Enterprises
B.1 Proprietors,
owner-drivers and self employed drivers of passenger vehicles used wholly or
partly in a tourist enterprise.
B.2 Safari
Outfitters including shopkeepers, stallholders and any other person offering
garments of Souvenir value for sale to tourists as a substantial part of their
business.
B.3 Game fishing outfitters
B.4 Proprietors of enterprises offering camps and
camping equipment for hire.
B.5 Motor cycle
or Bicycle hire enterprises
B.6 Nature Parks
B.7 Amusement Parks
B.8
Non-Citizen tour leaders/guides
Class B enterprises
shall pay…………………Kshs. 6,000
To apply for a
licence, please download the form here and send the completed
form to:
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this licence, please click
here to contact us.
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Class “C”
Enterprises
C.1
Shopkeepers, Stale holders, Stand holders and any other person offering
for sale to tourists as a substantial part of their business goods made by hand
from indigenous raw materials and manufactures of such goods.
C.2
Local Traditional Boat Operators
C.3
Professional Safari Photographers
C.4
Travel Bureau or booking offices other than those of an airline, which
operates international air routes and does not carry on any tourist activities
in Kenya.
C.5 Interpreters
C.6
Private Zoos
C.7 Cultural
Centres
C.8 Citizen Tour Leaders/Guides
Class C Enterprises shall pay………………………Kshs. 2,000
To apply for a licence, please download the form here and send the completed
form to:
If you would like specific information with regard to
this licence, please click
here to contact us.
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Exempted
Enterprises
Enterprises being
either: - an undertaking operated by the Government or the
community or
- an undertaking consisting of taxi-cab within the meaning
of the Traffic Act, plying for hire within the area of jurisdiction of the
local authority under whose by-laws it is registered.
Most
Tourism Businesses in Kenya pay a Catering and Tourism Development Levy. These
funds are utilized by CTDLT, which is charged with the mandate of developing
the Kenyan tourism industry through sponsorship of marketing through KTB training through
KUC and development
of standards.
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