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TodayWednesday, April 29, 2026

Impact of COVID-19 on TOurism

Located in Kampala - Makerere, Nyumbani Hotel Makerere has 55 comfortable rooms. According to government, unlike the other hotels which declined to grant suspected Covid-19 access, the hotel owners were flexible and open.

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

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 zones.
June 3, 2020
A largely empty Kampala Street. Uganda is implementing a 6-week phased lockdown of businesses. Interviewed business owners/leaders want the lockdown to end and government to intervene in saving up to 4.4 million jobs

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

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 formal sector
May 22, 2020
Ruparelia Group’s 2-in-1 Speke Resort and Conference Centre and Speke Resort and Conference Centre will be closed down effective tomorrow, MArch 27th till the coronavirus effects end

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

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 effective tomorrow,
March 26, 2020

 

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