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Migration boosts Tourism in Masai Mara, Kenya

17th August, 2016 12:23:00

Hotels in the Masai Mara Game Reserve are enjoying booming business as tourists flock in to witness the wildebeest migration. The migration began towards the end of June with huge numbers of the herbivores from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania crossing the Mara River into the Masai Mara in Kenya.

The migration is an annual journey by the animals, described as the Eighth Wonder of the World.

According to a market share report, top lodges are fully booked for the season as visitors from all around the world continue to stream in to experience the spectacle.

Some of the most popular lodges amongst visitors are Mara Serena followed by Sarova Mara, Ashnil Mara Camp and Keekorok lodge. Other hotels that are reaping from the upsurge of visitors are Mara Intrepid, Kichwa Tembo, Angama, and Governor's camp.

Most of the lodges and tented camps in the Mara have been fully booked since last month with some of the wildlife loving tourists being forced to look for accommodation in hotels and camps around the game reserve.

Mara Conservancy's CEO Brian Heath told journalists that the Mara triangle lodges alone had achieved full bookings of 4,000 guests daily.

According to Keekorok Lodge manager John Kiruthi, the lodge is 100 per cent booked up to September.

Most of the visitors are from countries not traditionally known to tour Kenya like China, Brazil, Japan, Malaysia and Taiwan.

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