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For Kenyan men traveling abroad, business and professional work are the primary reasons, accounting for 35.2 percent of male trips in December 2024 and 38.8 percent in June 2025.
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When people think of tourists coming into Kenya, the mental picture is usually a family in a safari van or a couple walking down a coastal beach. But data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics paints a completely different picture.
According to the 2025 Inbound and Outbound Tourism Expenditure Survey Report, the most common international visitor landing in Kenya is a professional travelling entirely by himself, part of a demographic with an overall mean age of 39.
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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.