Region yet to recover cruise business after Covid pandemic

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Tourists at the Bamburi Beach Hotel in Mombasa in July. East Africa usually receives cruise ships from August. PHOTO | FILE

Cruise business appeared to be growing in Kenya before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Now officials only talk about what could have been.

Inchcape Shipping Ltd, one of the main handling agents for cruise ships in the region, said the business would have sustained the tourism industry in its lean times.