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Blow after court quashes laws hiking tourism fees at the Coast

Tourism CS Rebecca Miano. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The government has suffered a blow after the High Court quashed gazette notices to increase tourism charges in Mombasa and Kilifi.

Justice Mugure Thande found that the Ministry of Tourism should have consulted the locals before coming up with the new regulations spelling out new charges last year.

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