Beside messages of hope and peace, last week’s papal visit presented huge business opportunities to many SMEs and also large businesses in hospitality and other sectors, considering that Nairobi’s population swelled by an additional one million people.
Five-star hotel Villa Rosa Kempinski confirmed hosting the Vatican Press as well as international media personalities who had accompanied Pope Francis in his first Africa tour as pontiff. Other hotels in Nairobi hosted Catholics from different dioceses from different parts of the country.
Advertisers, including advertising agencies, newspapers, radio stations and TVs also reaped big as the Catholic Church spent millions of shillings in running ads of Pope Francis visit. SMEs in the printing business cashed in on the high demand for T-shirts, posters, and reflector jackets with the Pope message.
Hawkers made a kill from selling foodstuffs to over 200,000 people, including 9,000 priests and 60 cardinals, archbishops and bishops of worshipers, who thronged the University of Nairobi’s Graduation Square and the Central Park on Thursday and thousands of youths attended the pontiff public mass at the Safaricom International Sports Centre, Kasarani.
The transport sector also ripped big from transporting thousands of Kenyans who came from different counties to Nairobi and
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