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    Impact of COVID-19 on TOurism

    Sheraton Kampala Hotel reopens under strict Standard Operation Procedures

    Muhereza KyamuteteraCompany NewsJune 13, 2020June 13, 2020

    Kampala Uganda, June 10th, 2020: With Uganda easing the lockdown restriction on the hospitality sector, Sheraton Kampala hotel which opened its doors early this week has tightened and elevated its…

    How Tourism Minister, Kiwanda was thrown out of a Kampala Hotel at midnight with 80 quarantined Covid-19 suspects and Hotel Nyumbani came to the rescue

    Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryJune 3, 2020June 4, 2020

    On the evening of March 18th 2020, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced government would shut down schools, religious gatherings and entertainment places in order to decongest high risk population concentration…

    Speke Group opens a number of its hotels; observes social distancing measures

    Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryMay 27, 2020May 27, 2020

    Following government’s easing of some movement restrictions over Covid-19, Speke Group of Hotels, Uganda’s largest chain of hotels, has moved to open some of its flagship hotels to the public….

    UN and Makerere report says 100,000 formal sector and 4,400,000 informal sector jobs to be lost to Covid-19

    Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryMay 22, 2020May 22, 2020

    62.3 percent of Ugandan business are considering or have already started cutting jobs as a result of Covid-19, a trend that could render up to 100,000 Ugandans jobless in the…

    Covid-19: All measures to ease lockdown are dependent on the availability of gov’t issued masks; Museveni clarifies

    Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryMay 19, 2020May 19, 2020

    The Uganda government has moved to ease down on a number of travel and business-opening restrictions, but President Museveni insists all these moves are dependent on the availability of government…

    TOURISM & COVID-19: This is the time for government and private sector to craft and implement a recovery master plan

    Muhereza KyamuteteraThought LeadershipApril 21, 2020April 21, 2020

    In Uganda, Tourism has been the leading foreign exchange earner, accounting for US$ 1.6 billion. The sector has been contributing approximately 8% of the GDP and supports 667,600 jobs directly…

    COVID-19: Speke Resort and Commonwealth Munyonyo Close Down; several other hotels said to be fully or partially closed

    Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryMarch 26, 2020March 26, 2020

    As the knock-on effects of the deadly COVID-19 begin to bite deep, the Ruparelia Group is closing down its two flagship hotels- Speke Resort and Conference Centre, Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort…

    Cancelled bookings, empty rooms and ballooning overheads: Uganda’s tourism sector counts COVID-19 costs- and it’s just the start

    Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryMarch 25, 2020March 26, 2020

    Although Uganda had as of March 15, 2020, not yet registered a single case of the deadly COVID-19 top five Kampala hotels had registered a loss of an estimated USD…

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