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Said Athman, Kenya Tourism Secretary, Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife, speaking at the UNTWO Tourism Recovery Summit in Saudi Arabia, May 2021.
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Said Athman is Tourism Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism. He holds a Masters in Regional and Urban Planning, University of Nairobi and an Honorary Building Economics degree from University of Nairobi and studied at the Starehe Boys Centre. He is a Quantity Surveyor, Planner, and Associate Arbitrator, Institute of Arbitrators of Kenya. He has a distinguished career in private, public and development sectors leaving legacy footprints in his contribution. He has previously served in various positions as Advisor to the Cabinet Secretary, Mining Secretary in the Ministry of Mining, Housing Secretary in the Ministry of Housing and Culture Secretary in the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture. He has also served as Chief Executive of the Consortium for the Empowerment and Development of Marginalised Communities (CEDMAC) and Director of Association of the St. John Ambulance in Kenya amongst other senior positions of several organisations. He has chaired a pan-african body Hope for the African Children Initiative (HACI), URAIA (Kenya’s National Civic Education Platform) and has been a board member of other private and development organisations at national and regional levels. He currently serves as Honorary General Secretary of Kenya Arab Friendship Society and Secretary General of the National Union of Kenya Muslims. In the public sector, he has served as a Director of the Board of Tourism Finance Corporation, Kenya Utalii College, Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Kenya National Library Services and the Kenya Cultural Centre.

Video transcript:
I think we have come here first of all to support destination Saudi Arabia. It's a new destination. They're trying to get off the blocks. They're doing big investments in tourism, but also it's a time after the pandemic that people are beginning to travel. So we're also trying it out how it looks and how different people are reacting. Of course, the primary purpose for this meeting is to see them launch this unique center, as a regional center for UNWTO. At the same time today we have really had a good session of the Tourism Recovery Summit, yes. Kenya has been equally hit with tourism because 93% of our tourists is foreign. Most of our source markets at the US, the UK, France, Germany, China. So our recovery is heavily dependent on the recovery back at the source markets which are there. So we are seeing in terms of the numbers, the future, our summer numbers are looking very encouraging. But we do not expect to recover until about 2024 to the pre-COVID numbers.