Policies and Reports (PR): Recent submissions

  • Tourism Climate Change Response 
    Queensland Government (2018-05)
    For Queensland's tourism businesses and communities, climate change is both a risk and an opportunity too big to ignore. Increasing costs of extreme weather events, changes to natural resources, and the transition towards ...
  • Water saving tips for hotels 
    Ecotourism Kenya (Ecotourism Kenya, 2021-03-07)
    Climate change and population growth are making water scarcity a growing global problem. Therefore, accommodations and hotels have both a commercial and moral interest in reducing their water consumption. Cost is a significant ...
  • Rebuilding Tourism Competitiveness 
    World Bank (World Bank, 2020-07)
    The travel and tourism industry was one of the first real sectors to be affected by COVID-19. The crisis has impacted every facet of the industry and demonstrated the vulnerability of the sector’s vast value chain. Since ...
  • Global Guidelines for Safe & Seamless Traveller Journey 
    World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) (World Travel and Tourism Council, 2020-11)
    Technological advances enable verified digital identities that use biometrics to confirm with high certainty the identity of a user. Applying these solutions to the Travel & Tourism sector offers significant benefits. ...
  • Articulating the Pathways of the Socio-Economic Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on the Kenyan Economy 
    SPAU, UNRCO (SPAU, 2020-04)
    This policy brief assesses the possible vulnerabilities and impacts on Kenya of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although it is too early to predict the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Kenyan econ0my, this ...
  • Leading Global Protocols for the New Normal - Adventure Tourism 
    World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) (World Travel and Tourism Council, 2020-09)
    For the Travel & Tourism sector to recover from the COVID-19 crisis, travellers will need to feel assured of the safety of travel. In that context, it is important that travellers are clearly and simply advised of the new ...
  • Insights from the Climate & Environment Action Forum 
    World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) (World Travel and Tourism Council, 2019-10)
    On September 24, 2019, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) in collaboration with the UNFCCC, hosted it's inaugural global Climate & Environment Action Forum in New York City. This Forum took place as leaders from ...
  • National Climate Change 
    Government of Kenya (Government of Kenya, 2010-04)
    Climate change is one of the most serious threats to sustainable developement globally, studies have shown that about 90% of all natural disaster afflicting the world are related to severe weather and extreme climate change. ...
  • Rebuilding Tourism for The Future 
    OECD (Government of Kenya, 2020-12-14)
    The outlook for the tourism sector remains highly uncertain. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to hit hard, with international tourism expected to decrease by around 80% in 2020. Domestic tourism is helping to soften ...
  • Green approaches to Covid-19 recovery: Policy note for parliamentarians 
    Inter-parliamentary union (Inter-parliamentary Union, 2020)
    The consequences of COVID-19 and efforts to contain it have led to one of the most serious recessions in recent history, characterized by, among others, a decline in economic growth, decreased trade, low business revenues ...
  • Rebuilding Tourism Competitiveness 
    World Bank Group’s Markets & Technology Global Tourism Team (World Bank Group, 2020-07)
    The travel and tourism industry was one of the first sectors to be affected by COVID-19. Since March, the entire value chain that defines the industry — spanning airlines, bus and train companies, cruise lines, hotels, ...
  • United Nations Comprehensive Response to COVID-19 
    UN (UN, 2020-09-03)
    Over the course of 2020, the coronavirus disease, or COVID-19, has taken hundreds of thousands of lives, infected millions of people, upended the global economy and cast a dark shadow across our future. No country has been ...
  • How Covid-19 is Changing the World: A Statistical Perspective Volume II 
    UN (UN, 2020-08-30)
    All countries have been challenged by the novel coronavirus, but they have not all fared the same. Here, distinctive patterns are illustrated using daily counts of new confirmed cases as reported to the World Health ...
  • Covid-19 related policy shifts supportive of Travel and Tourism sector 
    The Authority on World Travel and Tourism (World Travel and Tourism Council, 2021-02-18)
    Australia. In addition to the first $17.6 billion stimulus plan, further measures and extensions bring the total value of support to well over AUS$300 billion. Within the plan, the government has pledged over AUS$1 billion ...
  • Covid-19 and Transforming Tourism 
    United Nations (Government of Kenya, 2020-12)
    Tourism came to a standstill in mid-March 2020. International tourist arrivals decreased by 56 per cent in the first months of the year, with numbers in May down by 98 per cent. This translates into a loss of nearly $320 ...
  • Protocals for The New Normal 
    Government of Kenya (Government of Kenya, 2020-06-22)
    The tourism and travel sector is undoubtedly one of the worst hit globally following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Arising from the pandemic, the tourism and wildlife sectors are experiencing unprecedented health ...
  • Research Report on Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Test Situation 
    Kenya Tourism Federation (Government of Kenya, 2020-12)
    The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 was first reported in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019 and then it spread globally. On March 11th2020, having spread across the globe, the ...
  • Travellers’ Readiness to Travel Post Covid-19 Pandemic 
    Kenya Association of Travel Agents (Government of Kenya, 2020-12)
    The outbreak of COVID-19 has had a major impact on the global economy with the travel and tourism industry being the hardest hit. Tourism in Kenya is one of the major economic pillars and Kenya is the third largest tourism ...
  • Policy Brief on Impact of Covid-19 on Tourism in Kenya, the Measures Taken and the Recovery Pathways: Digitizing Travel and Tourism Industry in Kenya 
    Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife (Republic of Kenya, 2020-06)
    Tourism is one of the key sectors in Kenya’s economy and its resilience is critical for socio-economic development and sustenance of livelihoods in the Country. Despite its remarkable growth over the years, the sector ...
  • Covid-19 and Travel and Tourism in Kenya Policy Brief 
    Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife (Government of Kenya, 2020-06)
    There has been an extraordinary growth of tourism recorded in 2020 in the world (1.5 billion), Africa (71.2 million) and Kenya (2.05 million).

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