After 15 years the return flight to Rome to Nairobi, the Kenya Airways will carry out in partnership with Alitalia. The inauguration of the first flight took place this morning at the 'Leonardo da Vinci airport at Fiumicino. Three times a week, Monday Thursday and Saturday, linking the two capitals.
The plane that made today's flight, a Boeing 767-300, is then distributed to Nairobi with more than 130 passengers, many of them tourists. Already, the Italian tourism to Kenya is the world's third largest after the U.S. and England: the first eight months showed an increase of 36.4 percent over 2009 with 54,885 arrivals representing a market share of 7.8 percent. A significant finding - noted the Kenya Tourist Board - when compared to the total international arrivals in the same reporting period: 701,691, an increase of 14.7 percent over the previous year. Even for vacationers Italian ports of entry in Kenya are the two airports' Moi International Airport in Mombasa and "Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, where from January to August this year were respectively 44,182 and 10,703 arrivals recorded. "This figure indicates that - according to the Kenya Torist Board - which for Italy, Kenya means above sea relx, all-inclusive resort, Malindi and Watamu with one of the most popular. Now in just over 6 hours Italians will land in Nairobi, sparkling metropolis and a starting point for safaris, trekking, and golf, thanks to the variety of nature, rich landscapes such as savannas, rift valley, crater lakes, deserts, mountains, equatorial forests and coral beaches.
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