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Africans are known for their unique sporting activities world over. It is in Africa where you will find the most energetic sports men and women in all the major sporting events. Africa being a sports continent is best placed for sports tourism. South Africa leads in this new tourism concept – “Sports Tourism in Africa”.  Sports tourism is a new concept in the tourism industry and is gaining momentum in Africa. Many visitors visit Africa to get to know why Africans are best known for their athletic dynamics, boxing and tennis court sports among others. Sports tourism is actually a specialty travel package which basically means visiting places where sporting activities are undertaken. Sports activities in Africa include boxing, track and field activities, Lake and Beach water sports, bull fighting, cock fighting, football, netball, table tennis, tennis and handball. All these activities when done in different countries and spectators travel to the venues of the same is tentamount to sports tourism, it is basically going into one’s country for the purpose of participating in or taking part in the sporting event there as a participant or spectator. Africa, being a continent of Sunshine and nice beaches along it’s coast, stands pivotal for sports tourism among the six continents of the world. In view of this Niche Africa holidays have different packages for different sporting activities in Africa. We urge sports spectators and participants to visit Africa through us. 

East Africa is composed of the five countries namely: - Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania which incorporates Pemba and Zanzibar islands. From the above East Africa community countries, each country majors in its own sporting activity. Kenya is known for its superior athletics events, Uganda is famous for its boxing and water rafting adventures, Rwanda and Burundi are known for their football and mountain climbing sports while Tanzania, Zanzibar and Pemba are known for mountain climbing, beach sports, surfing and snorkeling along its superb beaches.

Sporting tourism in East Africa calls in; many foreign sports tourists who would want to have the feel and practice along side the African dynamic world marathon gold medalists. Most of these sports tourism packages take visitors to the Kenyan highland of kericho, Eldoret plus the Nandi highlands, where the cream of the Kenyan athletes who have won gold medals since time immemorial worldwide come from. The other sports tourism activities which pull in most tourists; is the current water rafting on river Nile at its source; the Bujagali falls and the water rafting on  river Tana, both in Uganda and Kenya respectively. The East Africa beaches play a major role in sports tourism in East Africa. The stretch of the East Africa coast has several sporting events and activities all year round, these include snorkeling, surfing, boating and fishing sports, water cruising, deep sea fishing and volleyball sporting activities along the beaches, swimming competitions are most favorable in the Kenyan waters along the beaches and also the Zanzibar island beaches. For those who would want to go for holidays along the beaches of East Africa and participate in water sporting activities, Zanzibar is known for its white sand beaches which are famous for volleyball, netball and running events along Zanzibar beaches. Rock climbing on the East African Mountains and game parks is quite exhilarating sporting events.

Specialty sporting activities in East Africa
This is meant for the physically Challenged in society. This is a new tourism sporting activity emerging within the East African part of the African continent, specialty sports tourism is basically meant for the disabled and physically challenged members of the society, this type of groups have special sporting events which are conducted within  East Africa. These activities include the paraplegic wheel chair cycling competitions, wheel chair Basket ball tournaments. The mentally disturbed; football games, the athletic running events for the blind, whereby they participate in running events while being escorted and led by able individual athletes. The running events of the lame while on crutches and lastly, the volleyball events for the physically challenged. Many visitors come to Africa to witness the dynamic spatiality sports activities thus, sports tourism.   

Sports Tours in Kenya

Kenya is known for its dynamic sports activities with the track events leading all the sporting events in the country. Kenya is known world over for producing the best marathoners since time immemorial; the likes of Kipchoge Keino, Nyandika Mayore, Ngugi and Wakihuri all of whom are now retired from track events and have since become coaches, and the current Catherine Ndereva, , Paul Tergat among others. From the above list, many visitors from Europe, America and the world over visit Kenya to ascertain why Kenyan athletes are famous world over. They visit Kenyan rural set ups where the athletes are born and bread; the Kenyan highlands. Kipchoke keino has since build an athletes training centre where most visitors willing to participate alongside the Kenyan athletes can be housed while they take part in the day to day running events in the Kenyan highlands. It is in Kenya, where you find the famous woman boxer; the known Luo – Conjestina Achien’g, who is boxing her way throughout the world from Kenya, into Africa and the world over. The sports tourism activities along the Kenyan coasts are more attractive to most visitors who visit the Kenyan beach hotels annually.

The women football events are gaining momentum; women in Kenya are actively enrolling in the women football which has just started in this part of the continent. Boating and fishing sporting activities on Lake Victoria, lake Naivasha, Lake Nakuru and Lake Baringo are most preferred by those who wish to compete in fishing and boating events in Kenya. Football tournament in Kenya attract both corporate and individual persons into sponsoring sporting tourism as participants and organizers of the same tournaments.

The most preferred sports tourism events are as follows;

• Water rafting on River Tana and River Nile
• Sports celebrity sports luxury holidays
• Lake Victoria Boating and Fishing sports tours
• Migwena annual Boating Competition in lake Victoria
• walking Sports Safaris
•  Boda Boda Bicycle Riding Competition
•  Bull and Cock fighting in Western Kenya.
• Deep-sea fishing and Scuba diving along the Kenyan Coast
• Golfing in Kenya
• Motor racing, horse & camel riding
  

Niche Africa holidays customizes all sporting tourism vacations in Kenya, East Africa and Africa at large. We urge sports tourist to book or customize their visits with us.