Summary
- Guests started arriving in huge numbers in Nyeri from last week.
- Some of the key hotels within Nyeri Town have recorded a 70 per cent increase in revenue following the huge bookings in the last week.
- Hawkers and small traders are also cashing in the celebration by selling flags and other items bearing the colours of the Kenyan flag.
Traders and hoteliers in Nyeri have
recorded a booming business as the country marks 54 years since Kenya
attained self-rule before gaining independence from the British colonial
government.
Some of the key hotels within Nyeri Town
have recorded a 70 per cent increase in revenue following the huge
bookings in the last one week.
“The booking of the
hotels have been good for the last one week as people flock to the
county for the preparations of the Madaraka celebrations,” said Mr
Samuel Njue, the manager of Green Hills Hotel.
The
hoteliers said they have been hosting Kenya Defence Force generals,
ambassadors, Cabinet secretaries, permanent secretaries, individual
Kenyans and have company bookings.
Guests started arriving in huge numbers in Nyeri from last week.
“We
are very glad that the government has supported us and would wish that
many more celebrations would be hosted in Nyeri,” said Mr Njue.
Outside Nairobi
This
will be the third time national celebrations are being held outside
Nairobi, having been hosted in Machakos and Nakuru counties.
The White Rhino Hotel manager Phoebe Ndung’u said almost all their rooms have been occupied for the last one week.
“We have seen an increase in our generated revenue in the last one week compared to the same period last year,” she said.
Hawkers
and small traders are also cashing in the celebration by selling flags
and other items bearing the colours of the Kenyan flag.
A flag is going for a maximum of Sh100.
Nyeri County was a bastion of Kenya's freedom struggle and is the birth place of independence hero Dedan Kimathi.
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