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The AI tourist, at Swahilipot

A postcard from the World Tourism Week conversations in Mombasa.

Participants posing for a group photograph beneath the Swahilipot sign, with an Explore Mombasa backdrop
From the public World Tourism Week photo set at Swahilipot Hub.Shared by Vincent Omondi on Facebook. Photographer not identified in the original post.

I delivered a keynote on how artificial intelligence could change the way the world discovers Mombasa, and joined conversations with young innovators working on tourism.

In the public recap, I wrote about connecting talent with resources, institutions, and opportunities. Technology was part of that conversation; the people using it were central to it.

This postcard adapts that recap. It records the encounter, not research findings or outcomes that have yet to be documented.