Tourism Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie has urged hotel operators to introduce value addition products to spur tourism in the country. Kandie said hoteliers should embrace and make it a mandatory that there is free access of internet in the hotels. She said such value addition go a long way in luring international and domestic tourists. “Hotel industry will have the full potential when they start adding value to some of their products and a free Wi-Fi is one such value addition,” she said in Kisumu, while officially the Wigot Gardens hotel. She announced that her ministry is working closely with the Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology to offer lower rates for the free Wi-Fi. Kandie said her ministry is keen to ensure quality and standards in the hotels are maintained. “My ministry is in talks with that of the ICT to ensure our hotels offer free access to internet and the rates should be subsidised,” she said. The ICT CS, Dr Fred Matiang’i, announced that his ministry will ensure that special rates for the hotels for their free Wi-Fi will be developed. Matiang’i said that hotels and other tourism facilities must ensure they provide free internet to boost tourism sector in the country. “The Ministry of Tourism should use this free Wi-Fi as a yardstick to evaluate and rate our hotels. There is no way a hotel is rated a 3-star hotel yet it doesn't have even a free Wi-Fi,” he said.

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