The tourism sector in the Malindi Sub-county of Kilifi county has got a major boost after Spanish Investors began flocking to Malindi to venture into the tourism venture for the first time.
Already, three Spanish investors have established an ultramodern Club in the resort town, targeting tourists visiting Malindi. They are planning to invest heavily in the tourism sector to attract Spanish tourists.
The Move is set to diversify the sector largely dependent on the Italian Market, which earned Malindi the Little Italy brand.
Apart from the Spanish tourism investors, the German market is reportedly making a grand comeback to Malindi after investors took over the running of three resorts, Tropical Village, Dream Gardens, and Dream of Africa, and renovated them to suit the German and other European markets.
So far the resort is known as Diamonds Malindi and has already begun receiving tourists from Germany and France with the authorities saying bookings are promising from the German market this festive season.
Germans used to be famous in Malindi from the 70s and 80s until 80s when they exited after the Italians begun investing largely in the resort town making it earn the name little Italy.
Amatore Peris one of the three Spanish Investors who was first to visit Malindi for holiday after investing and living in Indonesia for three years said he fall in love with the resort town due to its nearness to the airport , nearness to the capital city and the many tourism attractions including nearness to the Tsavo national park, nice sandy beaches amon g others thats why he decided to begin investing in the resort town.
To him it was suprising that despite Malindi being a beautiful destination people from Spain do not know about it and called on other Spanish investors and tourists to begun visiting the resort city as it was a perfect destination for holiday.
Speaking after taking journalists on a tour of their modern club called D5 (Double 5) he said their idea is to bring the idea of the famous Ibiza of Spain to Malindi .
However he said Malindi needs more restaurants in addition to the many existing Italian restaurants to include Spanish restaurants, upgrading of the existing hotels so as to attract Spanish and other tourists from Europe .
He said they have a grand opening of the D5 this Friday which will mark the beginning of parting and asked revellers both locals from the Coast , Nairobi and all parts of Kenya together with foreigners to visit Malindi and enjoy the vibes.
Carlos Peris a Spanish Investor and a brother to Amatore said he came to Malindi after his brother told him he had chose to invest in the resort town .
To him it he found strange that the brother who had invested in Indonesia for over 30 years had chose Malindi as the next home of investment as he had not heard about the town but after arriving in Malindi he found out it was the best destination.
Paco Mompo one of the Spanish investor said he fall in Love with Malindi upon arriving and termed it the best place for investment .
Reiner the General Manager of Diamonds Malindi said they have bokings from Germans who will be coming to Malindi in large numbers this festive season.
He said Malindi was prominent to the Italian market but now they are looning in for the German Market, France, UK and Eastern Europe.
Already tourists from France who visited Diamonds Malindi said the resort town was a perfect destination for tourism and promised to tell other French tourists to visit Malindi.
