Bookings on the standard gauge railway (SGR) more than doubled last year on increased movement between Nairobi and Mombasa after Covid containment measures were eased, data from the Kenya Railways Corporation shows.
Passenger ticket sales rose 146 percent to nearly two million compared with 811,552 bookings in 2020, helping boost beach tourism in a year locals helped grow tourism earnings 65 percent to Sh146.51 billion.
