{"id":143832,"date":"2026-06-12T10:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/prof-julius-bitok-assumes-role-as-new-tourism-principal-secretary\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:02:57","slug":"prof-julius-bitok-assumes-role-as-new-tourism-principal-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/prof-julius-bitok-assumes-role-as-new-tourism-principal-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Julius Bitok assumes role as new tourism principal secretary\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prof. Julius Bitok has assumed his role as the new Principal Secretary for the State Department for Tourism taking over from John Ololtuaa who was reassigned to the State Department for Basic Education.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the ceremony Bitok committed to rally industry stakeholders in helping the country achieve its target of five million international arrivals by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenya\u2019s tourism sector has enormous potential but realising it requires all of us including the government and private sector moving in the same direction. My door is open. I want to work with the industry, not just for it,\u201d said Bitok.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bitok, hitting the target would require expansion of Kenya\u2019s tourism products beyond its traditional safari and beach offerings to broaden the country\u2019s appeal to international markets.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/prof-julius-bitok-assumes-role-as-new-tourism-principal-secretary\/\">Prof. Julius Bitok assumes role as new tourism principal secretary\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Julius Bitok has assumed his role as the new Principal Secretary for the State Department for Tourism taking over from John Ololtuaa who was reassigned to the State Department for Basic Education. Speaking during the ceremony Bitok committed to rally industry stakeholders in helping the country achieve its target of five million international arrivals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}