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Hon.
Kandie was born in Eldama Ravine, Baringo County, Kenya. In 1986 she
joined St. Mary’s University, Canada for her undergraduate where she
attained a B.Com (Economics) Degree. She
then proceeded to Middlesex University, United Kingdom in 1991 and
Durham University, UK for her MBA and further training. She is
married to Ambassador Julius Kandie and blessed with two children,
Lawrence and Simon. Professionally, Mrs. Kandie an investment banker
and prior to her nomination, she was engaged as a Director,
Investment Advisory Services at Standard Investment Bank. The new
minister has also served as a regulator within the capital markets,
energy and agricultural sector. Previously, she was a Business
Advisory Consultant for the SME sector having consulted for the
World Bank and European Union. She has also several boards including
the Kenya Revenue Authority.
Uganda, which assumed the presidency of the Africa Travel
Association (ATA) a year ago after hosting the hugely successful
39th Annual Congress in Munyonyo, Kampala, yesterday evening
hosted delegates and invited guests to a dinner at the
InterContinental Hotel in Nairobi. The Honorable Doctor Maria
Mutagamba, Uganda’s Minister for Tourism, Wildlife and
Antiquities, welcomed the delegates of the congress and other
invited guests to the dinner function, bringing back memories of
the 39th Congress a year ago when she assumed the Presidency of
ATA. With her was Mrs. Susan Muhwezi, the Uganda ATA Chapter
President, both expressing their thanks for the honor of having
been host country a year ago, after ATA held its initial
function in 2004 when ATA’s Cultural Forum was held in Uganda.
It is now the turn of 2015 host country Kenya to take over the
rotating presidency of the Africa Travel Association for the
next year, and Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie, who was the
guest of honor for the evening, readily accepted the challenge.
Kenya traditionally hosts the round figure ATA congresses, and
the next time the organization will return to Nairobi will be in
2025. The Kenya Tourism Board, aka Magical Kenya, played a key
role in preparing for, organizing, and executing this year’s
congress, and Managing Director Muriithi Ndegwa, seen in the
photo with some of his key staff after a media briefing in the
KTB Boardroom yesterday, repeatedly expressed his delight to
host delegates from ATA member countries, in particular North
America. He encouraged the media team and delegates to take back
their own experience and impressions of the country and tell the
world that the Kenya they saw is not the Kenya often portrayed
in international news broadcasts.
Meanwhile, it was learned that Rwanda will be host country for
the 41st Annual Congress of the Africa Travel Association to be
held in a year in Kigali, after joining the association as a
full member. Rwanda was represented at the Nairobi Congress by
the Chief Tourism Officer at the Rwanda Development Board, Ms.
Belise Kariza, who took over office from Amb. Yamina who was
shortly after hosting the Kwita Izina Gorilla Naming Festival
posted as Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Britain. Being selected
as host country reflects the strides Rwanda has made over the
past decade in raising the country’s tourism profile. The sector
is now Rwanda’s leading foreign exchange earner and visitor
numbers have steadily risen over the years. The creation of a
fourth national park two months ago, Gishwati-Mukura,
underscores Rwanda’s ongoing commitment towards environmental
protection and sustainability of a now greatly-diversified range
of tourism products.
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