{"id":1882,"date":"2017-06-20T07:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T07:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/new\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2017-07-13T12:55:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T12:55:23","slug":"tanzania-tour-vans-barred-from-jkia-and-all-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/20\/tanzania-tour-vans-barred-from-jkia-and-all-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania tour vans barred from JKIA and all parks."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tourism ministry said on Friday that the move was a bid to implement the 1985 bilateral.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenya’s East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tanzanian-registered tour vans will no longer be allowed to access Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and game parks in Kenya.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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East African Affairs, Trade and Tourism Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie said a three-week window requested by Tanzania to allow both countries to discuss and sort out the issue had elapsed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe meeting to discuss these issues has not taken place,\u201d Ms Kandie said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThose three weeks have now expired without our Tanzanian counterparts convening the meeting for the negotiations,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Kandie said the government had, as a result, resolved to implement the bilateral agreement between Kenya and Tanzania signed in 1985 to ensure fairness of trade between the two countries.<\/p>\n

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TANZANIA’S REFUSAL<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The decision to invoke the bilateral agreement was taken following Tanzania\u2019s refusal to allow Kenyan vans into the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The agreement stipulates how tourism operations between the two countries should be conducted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It provides that tour vans drop off holidaymakers at convenient points in their respective countries as opposed to an earlier arrangement where tourists were being dropped off at border points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Cabinet secretary, however, expressed hope that the agreement would soon be reviewed to ease tourism operations in both countries.<\/p>\n

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The Tourism ministry said on Friday that the move was a bid to implement the 1985 bilateral. Kenya’s East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie.\u00a0 Tanzanian-registered tour vans will no longer be allowed to access Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and game parks in Kenya. East African Affairs, Trade and Tourism Cabinet Secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4698,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/4698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}