CONFERENCING IN KENYA

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Conference Tourism in Kenya

Kenya is ranked fourth in Africa after South Africa, Egypt and Morocco in conference tourism. This is an improvement from 2004 when it was fifth. This is attributed to conference facilities of international standards and back-up services brought in recently. Revenue from conference tourism is growing due to several factors. These includes, the rehabilitation of Kenyatta International Conference Centre which has played a crucial role in this business as it has hosted and continue to host many international meetings. With modernization and aggressive marketing, KICC is the nectar that attracts bees to the honey that is Kenya’s tourism. Mombasa, with its good weather and many hotels, is an ideal conference venue since it has the requisite facilities. Leisure lodge and Mombasa beach hotel among others have magnificent conference facilities of international standards.  

Our Services in conference tourismTaste of Africa Tours and safaris secures an appropriate location or venue for your conference, books the premises for you and your group; arranges for appropriate hotel and lodge accommodation and offers the services of transportation of delegates and employees to and from the venue. We also offer pre and post conference safaris, ticket confirmation, tours and safari consultancy, shopping and short tours and excursions to conference delegates. If you wish to hold your conference at the coast, in luxurious lodge or resorts in wildlife sanctuaries, around lake Victoria or in the urban centers of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, our conference management team will constantly be with your facilitators, ensuring that the event flows smoothly, delegates are transported from their hotels on schedule, and that the equipment is working in perfect order throughout the duration of your conference.

Conference Tours Few conferencing facilities around the globe would allow visitors to conduct business in the jungle in a leisurely manner. The Kenyan experience of conferencing began way before the business world adopted its current cooperate demands. The adorable game park hotels hosted important meetings that decided the fate of the country long before it became a republic. The Kilaguni Serena Lodge in the jungle of Tsavo National park gives more than it takes. With world class conferencing facilities, a quiet atmosphere, and wild game, you will experience the official jungle meeting of your life. Far from the noise in the city, the lodge provides culinary, picnic and necessary amenities to make your life comfortable at a minimum fee of 300 Euros a day. Modeled along the Victorian architecture, the hotel is as royal as its name sounds. If you fancy green surroundings, the Bomas of Kenya adjacent to the Giraffe Center sanctuary happens to be one of the greenest conference centers in Kenya. The Lukenya getaway hotel is another desirable option that has a remarkable country and wild atmosphere found in mostly high mountainous areas. It lies at the bottom of Lukenya hill, approximately 40 kilometers from the Nairobi city centre and 30 minutes from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The facility comprises of large grounds stretching across a green canopy of tiled grass in the middle of the rich, cultured Athi plains. Arguably, the most famous international conference complex in East Africa is the Kenyatta International Conference Center (KICC) located at the nerve centre of Nairobi Business District. For a long time it has been the venue for conferences, meetings, exhibitions and special events that span as wide as the African Diaspora. With a capacity of over 4,000 persons, the centre has well-equipped conference rooms with the simultaneous interpretation equipment. If you would rather spend time near the ocean tan in the countryside, you will find the Tamarind Village, a luxurious collection of beach apartments, a surreal finished product. Built in Arabic style architecture, the hotel has a slim corridor that borders the low water table of the Indian Ocean. The Village is an ideal place for business and visitors looking for an adventurous meeting. Catering for more than 400 guests, the staff will ease your work load as enjoy your time in the therapy and spa rooms. Outdoor sports like tennis and indoor games such as squash are also popular with visitors.

THE KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER

Nairobi is a sprawling city, the metropolis of Kenya and the business centre for East and Central Africa. It is in this city that Africa’s most modern convention complex – The Kenyatta International Conference Centre, dominate the skyline. Two lane highways bustling with traffic, numerous shopping centres and markets, good security. International standard hotels and sophisticated entertainment in clean and evergreen surroundings add to its charm.

THE PLENARY HALL The plenary Hall ranks as one of the largest conference halls in the meetings/ convention industry. It caters to the giants in any field from International meetings and exhibitions to grand balls and receptions. The plenary Hall with 2444 square metres space can accommodate up to 4000 delegates or 3200 with tables, 2500 banquet persons and can host up to 5000 guests for a cocktail reception.The plenary Hall is now famous as an exhibition centre. The plenary Hall is equipped with complete sound amplification and recording systems, interpretation booths with simultaneous language interpretation by wireless system up to six languages. Two observer galleries are also ideal for the press and journalists.

MEETING ROOMS 2 AND 3 Conference halls 2 &3 are located on the lower ground level, immediately beneath the plenary session’s hall. Conference hall 2 has an area of 355 square metres and can accommodate 250 tables and 350 in rows. Hall 3 has an area of 295 square metres and can take 200 tables and 300 in rows. Modification is in progress to make the dividing wall between hall 2 &3 removal so as to provide one large meeting facility when need. Committee meeting rooms are provided whilst there is a comfortable entrance lounge immediately adjacent to the halls, looking out upon a flowered water cascade. Coffee break services are comfortably served along this lounge.Both conference halls are equipped halls are equipped with six language interpreters’ booths with simultaneous interpretation by wireless systems, public address, and microphone and tape recording facilities.

THE AMPHITHEATREThe mushroom-shaped Amphitheater represents the traditional conical African hut. The theatre seats 800 at tables on three balconies circling the main auditorium. The podium is on the centre balcony immediately above the entrance from the covered walkway leading at roof levels across the main link.

GENERAL FACILITIES

The centre has a full range of appropriate technical facilities and services:

• A fully equipped press centre with telex and telephone exchange for communication throughout the world
• Post Office
• Bank
• Airline Terminal check
• Travel and tours
• Restaurants
• Souvenir shops ocuments
• Distribution centres
• and Registration centres.
• Health and clinical centre
• Security and Police post
• Parking space for 500 vehicles

OTHER FACILITIES

Conference Hall 5 & 6Conference Hall 5 & 6 are situated on the first floor level at the southern end of the Plenary Hall. Each hall accommodates 130 delegates in rows and 70 at tables. The central partition building from the two main entrances to the complex. Above the podium, which is admirably situated for the control set into the back wall? In the middle balcony, also lie simultaneous interpretation booths to which recording and public address systems are available, between the two halls can be removed providing one large room. Interpretation and recording facilities are provided by means of mobile interpreters’ booths plus portable tape recorders. 

Conference Hall 7Conference Hall 7 is situated on the first floor between the Tower and the Amphitheater. It is a spacious projection theatre with seats for 150 delegates in tiered rows and 70 at tables. Public address, tape and portable interpretation facilities can be provided, together with 16mm projection equipment. 

Conference Hall 8This conference hall is conveniently located on the lower ground floor with an executive setting. It is square in shape and can accommodate 300 delegates in rows and 250 at tables. It has six interpreters’ booths with simultaneous wireless interpretation, public address equipment, and microphone and tape recording facilities. 

Conference in exotic or wildlife VenuesOne of the increasingly popular trends in global conferences is to go to the "off-the-beaten" track resorts and establishments for meetings and seminars. Exotic locations are more often being chosen for these conferences and East Africa has not been left behind in this development. Wildlife resorts, beach hotels, remote island establishments have all gone out of their way to build conference facilities and obtain equipment for conferences in an effort to increase their hotel ratings even as they give the guests the all facilities they need in one place. The result of this transformation is that you can now have your conferences in such diverse locations such as on the slopes of Mount Kenya, on the islands of Lamu and Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, in remote wildlife sanctuaries like the Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, the Serengeti Game Sanctuary and the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania and the Tsavo National Park in Kenya.

Please contact us to help you choose the best location for your conference.