Tuesday, 26 February 2008

A new website for the new comers

This is our own! A product of our team work! Nine of us had been putting our minds and hearts together to beat the dead line of the launch of this new website we bad been building. This will be the 'new sensation' in the world of web about London.

This site will give to the new comers such as tourists, foreign students, visitors and immigrants a chance to peep at the interesting things that are going on in the city which are often overlooked by the main websites on London.

We are all so excited about this now project and we hope this will give a glimpse into the other little publicized parts of London.

The whole process is fun but tiring and challenging as we stay in different parts of the city. As the time of launch is drawing nearer we are beginning to breath a sigh of relief, and I hear some of my colleagues say 'oh! we are almost there.'

Visit this site and you can be guide to your visitors in London.

Saturday, 9 February 2008

A sign of hope for Kenya

The Kenyan economy primarily depends heavily on tourism and exports of horticulture to Europe.

The recent clashes that erupted after the election have put these into trouble.
Tourism brought Kenya a foreign revenue of about $ billion.

The horticulture was sent to Europe by the flights returning after bringing the tourists.

Now with fewer or no tourists coming to Kenya the horticulture products are left to rot in the country.

Around 20,000 people are already laid off since the election violence.

In a high tourist season around 30,000 people visit Kenya. This industry employs half a million people directly and three million indirectly.

Since the violence 20,000 people have already lost their jobs in the tourism sector.

Over a 1000 people lost their lives during the riots after the election in December ’08.

The presence of Former UN secretary General Kofi Annan’s efforts are bearing fruits and that is the only hope for that country.

The visit of UN emergency relief co-ordinator , John Holmes, to some of the key flashpoint areas of violence will bring a sigh of relief to may who are starving.