President William Ruto is elated that Nairobi was named the best city to visit in 2024, saying that efforts to promote kenya are finally paying off.

According to a report by Lonely Planet, a world travel guide publisher, Nairobi has been named the world's greatest city destination.

PHOTO | COURTESY President Ruto 

President William Ruto expressed his satisfaction on his X page, formerly known as Twitter, attributing it to the government's tireless efforts to showcase Kenya on the global stage.

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“The world is listening. Our effort to use every local and global opportunity to profile Kenya as a competitive destination has elicited highly inspiring feedback from Lonely Planet which has recognised Nairobi as its top global city destination. We agree wholeheartedly with this assessment and positive feedback from a global authority on matters travel and tourism,” Ruto wrote.

The head of state agreed with the report and praised the capital city for boasting spectacular touristic attractions liberally dispersed throughout the land.

PHOTO | COURTESY President Ruto 

"Kenya is a magnificent country endowed with a sumptuous array of spectacular touristic attractions that are liberally dispersed throughout the land, and Nairobi is its powerful, vital, beating heart. We dream in Nairobi and chase our biggest dreams here. We imagine a better present and future and then create it. We are brave, bold, and brilliant in Nairobi." he wrote 

"To be recognized as the world's top city destination for 2024 by Lonely Planet is, therefore, directly recognizing the city's unique confluence of global cosmopolitan trends and traditional cultural blends, with an emerging, evolving, and dynamic, youthful bent and everything else in between," he added.

PHOTO | COURTESY President Ruto 

The president called on Kenya's friends to spread the news all over and market kenya as the best destination to promote tourism.

"I encourage all our friends throughout the world to tell a friend or more to make the point of visiting Kenya and experiencing Nairobi. There is nowhere like here anywhere in the world."


"We are ready and waiting to give you an incomparable travel experience of unforgettable beauty and magic."