A team of French journalists are in Uganda to shoot a documentary on the Uganda’s natural resources potential. The team of five will spend two weeks in Kibaale forest, Kisoro, and Rwenzori areas of western Uganda studying the living partners and links between the mountain Gorillas and human’s. The film will feature the works of […]
The Nabagereka of Buganda Lady Sylvia Nagginda Luswata has urged the public to focus more on those tourist items in Buganda that can attract tourists to the country. Speaking at the 3rd annual Buganda Tourism Expo 2011 in Lubiri, Nabagereka says the region has many features like the Kabaka’s lake, animals and historical heritages among […]
Uganda Wildlife Authority has disclosed it that wildlife sector provides a range of employment opportunities for people living around protected areas. Featuring at the Uganda Broadcasting Services news hour program, a community conservation warden in charge of Mt. Elgon conservation area Geoffrey Matanda explained that among the beneficiaries are tourist guides, potters, rangers, office […]
The Uganda world life Authority has reduced fees charged on Gorilla tracking in the Bwindi impenetrable forest. The cost has been brought down from 500 dollar per permit for foreign nationals 350 US dollars each permits for national residents now cost 250 dollars while for East African has reduced from 250000-100000 Ugandan shillings. The fess […]
The Uganda Tourism Board has warned that the continued walks to work protest are badly affecting the tourism sector. The country managed to collect 600 million dollars from last year’s tourism activities but with the continued walk to work protest that have entered their fifth week are stopping tourists from visiting the country for fear […]
The Uganda Tourism Board is asking the government to increase funding to tourism sector in order to help the country better tap the potential of tourism. At a workshop in Kampala today, the Chairman of the Uganda Tourism Board Edwin Muzahura said that tourism is not picking well in Uganda because the Board is not […]
The Member of Parliament for Rubaga North Betty Kamya has called upon the government to improve on its investment in the tourism sectors because it is a sector that has the capability of boosting the Ugandan economy if the government increases its funding to the sector. Despite the potential that tourism industry in Uganda possesses, […]
The Chairman of Uganda Tourism Association, Amos Wekesa has urged Uganda to take the country’s tourism sector more seriously because tourism is capable contributing heavily to Uganda’s economic growth. While speaking to participants in the Traditional Trade Facilitation expo 2010 organised by the Private Sector Foundation, Wekesa said Uganda has great bio diversity and other […]
The Uganda Tourism Board has reassured intending tourists to Uganda that the security situation in the country is okay after the various security agencies, moved quickly to avert the security tension that were caused by the recent bomb blasts in Kampala that have left nearly eighty people dead and over 60 people injured. Reports indicate […]
The Airline companies operating in Uganda have reported that they are receiving numerous inquiries from their clients abroad, on the security situation in Uganda. This follows the last Sunday night bomb blasts in Kampala that left over 74 people and several others nursing injuries and property destroyed. Airline companies say they are receiving telephone calls […]