- Both have many hotels and lodges in major urban centres and cities within the tourists’ attractions for accommodation of tourists.
- Both have snow capped mountain peaks with permanent glaciers that are popular with tourists.
- Both experience political stability and relative peace that promote tourism.
- Both have many waterfalls (Switzerland – associated with hanging valleys, In Kenya along the major river courses) that attract tourists.
- Package tours are encouraged and organised in both the countries to make travel and accommodation fairly cheaper for the tourists.
- Both have national parks with a variety of plants and animals in their natural settings.
- Both countries embrace domestic, international and ecotourism.
- Both countries have health spas with mineral water which people consider to cure certain ailments. In Switzerland they are at Mt. Moritz and in Kenya at L. Bogoria
- In both countries tourists visit all year round.
- In both counties tourism sector earns a significant fraction of foreign exchange
