Ukunda Airstrip will be renamed Diani Airport as from April 25.
The announcement was made on Wednesday by Civil Aviation Authority.
KCAA Director General
Gilbert Kibe
said the
upgrading follows the commissioning of a Mobile Air Traffic Control Tower and Ministry of Tourism strategy to brand Diani as a global brand.
Ukunda Airport is a small airfield near Diani Beach in Kwale County.
It
serves the local areas of Diani, Tiwi and Msambweni.
Five years in a row, Diani Beach in Kenya’s South Coast has been named Africa’s Leading Beach Destination at the World Travel Awards.
The Kenyan South Coast is steadily becoming tourists’ destination of choice, beating Cape Town of South Africa, Sharm El Sheikh of Egypt and Zanzibar of Tanzania.
On October 7, during the World Travel Awards Gala at Durban International Convention Centre (Durban ICC) in South Africa, Kenya as a country won in 14 out of the 66 categories in Africa’s Leading Brands.
World Travel Awards was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the tourism industry, and today the WTA brand is recognised globally as the ultimate hallmark of quality, with winners setting the benchmark to which all others aspire.
