{"id":216384,"date":"2025-12-11T22:24:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-touts-bomas-conference-center-to-boost-kenyas-mice-and-tourism-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:24:51","slug":"kenya-ruto-touts-bomas-conference-center-to-boost-kenyas-mice-and-tourism-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-touts-bomas-conference-center-to-boost-kenyas-mice-and-tourism-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Touts Bomas Conference Center to Boost Kenya&#8217;s Mice and Tourism Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has reaffirmed the transformational potential of the Bomas International Conference Center (BICC), positioning it as a key engine for tourism and business events growth in Kenya.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Speaking at the launch of the Jamhuri Thematic Week themed around Wildlife, Tourism, and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions), the head of state said the new facility will reshape Kenya&#8217;s status as a premier international destination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">&#8220;I can now confidently tell you&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512110444.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has reaffirmed the transformational potential of the Bomas International Conference Center (BICC), positioning it as a key engine for tourism and business events growth in Kenya. Speaking at the launch of the Jamhuri Thematic Week themed around Wildlife, Tourism, and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions), the head of state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":216385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,46506,6557,7621,5739,4688,430,6097,29188,257,11238,5991,254,1634,17199],"class_list":["post-216384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bomas","tag-boost","tag-center","tag-conference","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-mice","tag-news","tag-ruto","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourism","tag-touts"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}