{"id":47593,"date":"2023-02-23T13:40:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/abercrombie-kent-s-private-jets-bringing-high-end-tourists-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T15:26:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:26:25","slug":"abercrombie-kent-s-private-jets-bringing-high-end-tourists-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/abercrombie-kent-s-private-jets-bringing-high-end-tourists-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Abercrombie & Kent\u2019s private jets bringing high-end tourists to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

The plane was carrying over 60 high-end tourists eager to explore the attractive beauty of the African continent. <\/p>\n

Abercrombie & Kent is an award winning luxury travel company, offering luxury vacations, private tours and small group adventures worldwide.<\/p>\n

The tourists spent four days in Rwanda as the country was recently added to the list of its top global destinations. <\/p>\n

Calling them high-end tourists does not come by accident. Each of them pays around US$200,000 to join tourists travelling around the world for 30 days to enjoy unique destinations on their luxury vacations arranged by Abercrombie & Kent.<\/p>\n

Making the payments, give tourists the chance to travel to different destinations around the world including three African countries. They also visit Rwanda onboard a large Boeing 757 plane customized into a private jet to secure enough space and provide comfort for passengers onboard. <\/p>\n

Tourists receive special treatment be it in terms of culinary experiences and other services needed during their flight. <\/p>\n

While Boeing 757 is normally designed to carry between 200 and 295 passengers, Abercrombie & Kent\u2019s plane was customized to host 60 people onboard with seats resembling the ones of \u2018business class\u2019.<\/p>\n

The jet flies with a doctor specialized in different diseases and a Michelin Chef. <\/p>\n

As they arrived at Kigali International Airport in Rwanda, the tourists were driven off to Musanze in Northern Province where they spent four days. <\/p>\n

It was an opportunity for them to trek Volcanoes to see rare mountain gorilla species and monkeys, visited a research center which carries the name of Diana Fossey, a celebrated gorilla conservationist who died in 1985 and various markets in Kinigi and Musanze. <\/p>\n

They spent three nights at luxury hotels in Musanze where the price for accommodation does not go below US$4000 (over Rwf4.3 million) per day. <\/p>\n

The expenses exclude shopped items, payments to tourist guides and land-based transportation where those with the least expenses did not spend below Rwf20 million within four days. <\/p>\n

Their coming to Rwanda is a fruit of the country\u2019s efforts to market its tourism offerings through Visit Rwanda campaign and signed partnerships with prominent teams in Europe like Arsenal and FC and Paris Saint Germain. <\/p>\n

The campaign went hand in hand with the development of infrastructure including hotels that accommodated tourists brought by Abercrombie & Kent. <\/p>\n

Abercrombie & Kent always sends tourists to safe countries, rich in touristic attractions and promising to put tourists\u2019 satisfaction to a high-table position. <\/p>\n

Rwanda is on CNN\u2019s list of top destinations in 2023. <\/p>\n

During an exclusive interview with IGIHE; Paul Muvunyi, the Chairman and Director for Abercrombie & Kentin Rwanda thanked the Government of Rwanda for expended efforts to promote tourism. <\/p>\n

Muvunyi has been a key player in the tourism sector for over 20 years. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe arrival of the tourists through Abercrombie & Kent is a testament that the broad agenda and vision of our country are yielding good results and beneficial to many,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Muvunyi explained that tourism sector would not have attained the current progress, hadn\u2019t it been the country’s infrastructure development, security and good leadership. <\/p>\n

He disclosed that they work with Rwanda Development Board (RDB) along the journey to enrich tourists\u2019 experiences from their arrival at the airport until their return. <\/p>\n

Muvunyi has however observed that more need to be done to increase tourism offerings luring tourists to prolong their stay. <\/p>\n

He said that they are making possible effort to convince high-end tourists to visit Rwanda regularly and extend their sojourn to explore various attractions. <\/p>\n

The tourists brought by Abercrombie & Kent spent most of their time in Rwanda with Tour Guides. <\/p>\n

Jean Paul Kabalisa, who was part of them, has told IGIHE that it requires enough preparations to make their sojourn memorable. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt requires updates on their itinerary to do what suits their plans in the right time,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Kabalisa revealed that tourists brought by Abercrombie & Kent receive excellent services as the case for the recent cohort where the majority was comprised of guests in advanced age. <\/p>\n

Abercrombie & Kent luxury travel company was founded by Geoffrey Kent and his parents Valerie and Colonel John Kent in 1962. <\/p>\n

It delivers luxury travel experiences in more than 100 countries across the world with branches in over 50 countries and employees 2500 dedicated travel experts. <\/p>\n

Abercrombie & Kent\u2019s latest branch was opened in Rwanda. <\/p>\n

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{At around 13:30 p.m. on Thursday 16th February 2023, Abercrombie & Kent\u2019s Boeing 757 jet landed at Kigali International Airport.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47593"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47593"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}