Kenya Travel Warnings Come Thick and Fast

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The eastern African nation of Kenya is the holiday destination for some one million tourists every year, most of them looking for a good combination of time on a warm beach and trips into the countryside on safari, hoping to see some of Africa’s incredible wildlife.

But right now, things are looking shaky for tourism to Kenya. With violence and unrest breaking out after the disputed presidential election recently, the current situation in Kenya, especially the capital city of Nairobi, has led to many travelers cutting short their vacations and heading for home. On top of that, the US government has issued a warning against non-essential travel to the whole country, with the British government issuing similar advice.

Some industry experts are already predicting that Kenyan tourism will suffer something of a collapse; it’s certainly true that once strong warnings have been put in place, it takes tourists quite a while to return to a destination - that’s what the Indonesian island of Bali went through after the Bali bombings a few years ago.

That might mean that other African destinations pick up the slack, and we’re tipping the south-western nation of Namibia. It’s already been put in hot trend lists for 2008 and it offers great animal watching opportunities, without the political unrest.