East African Community launches media campaign to stimulate intra-regional travel

East African Community (EAC) launched (24-Nov-2021) a regional and domestic tourism media campaign designed to stimulate intra-regional travel. The campaign will run for three weeks from 01-Dec-2021 with the aim to encourage East Africans to travel within their own countries and around the region. EAC noted it has developed the EACPass system to validate COVID-19 testing and vaccination certificates across EAC partner states. EAC is also working to ensure that the single tourist visa initiative is adopted by all partner states. EAC expects the region to record approximately four million tourists in 2022 and about seven million p/a by 2024, compared to 2.25 million in 2020. [more - original PR]