Mt. Elgon National Park covers an area of 169 sq. km and receives 3,000 visitors yearly. Main challenges of the park include security for wildlife and visitors, increasing human-wildlife conflict along the border with the former farms around the park that are now sub-divided and settled by formerly landless people and with non-residential cultivation in the forest reserves, as well as shortages of human and financial resources.
This report provides a five year tourism strategy for the western region of Kenya, focusing on the Mt. Elgon National Park. The survey was conducted in January-February 2000.
