And he doesn’t just talk, he also puts money where his mouth is. His new Tanzanian outfit, Mwamba Lodge Tarangire Limited has gotten a 50-year lease to run the former…
Uganda’s tourism sector will greatly benefit from the two upcoming international summits scheduled for January 2024, the minister of State for Foreign Affairs, John Mulimba, has told Parliament. Uganda will…
More than 200 Ugandan private and public sector players are in Mombasa, Kenya for the 2nd Uganda-Kenya Coast Tourism Conference 2023. The conference that starts today (November 13) at the…
The travel and tourism sector in Africa could add $168 billion to the continental economy and create 18 million jobs by 2033, a new report has revealed. The report was…
Persistent funding gaps by the Government of its Tourism Development Programme (FY 20/21 to FY 24/25) are slowing down the sector’s post-Covid-19 recovery and if not urgently addressed, Uganda risks…
The Minister of State for Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities, Hon. Martin Mugarra has requested that his ministry be allocated an additional UGX97 billion on top of the proposed UGX214.5 billion…
Uganda has come a long way from Polaroid slides and Kodak prints to having cameras with high-quality video capability as standard ware in mobile phones. Drone photography is yet another…
“Uganda Wildlife Authority is saddened to announce the death of six lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park. The carcasses of the lions were found last evening at Ishasha sector with…
According to the Tourism Sector Annual Performance Report FY2017/18), 80% of Uganda’s tourist arrivals are from Africa with Rwanda and Kenya sharing 31% and 24% respectively. Outbound tourism from Africa to the rest of the world, has been growing from 9.8 million in 1990 to 42.1million in 2017, according to UNWTO 2018 Tourism Highlights). Again, according to United Nations World Tourism Organisations (UNWTO), the largest majority of international travel takes place within travellers’ own regions (intraregional tourism)- 4 of 5 tourists travel within their own region. As such Africa remains a strategic tourist market for Uganda.
Started in 1933, the airline has flights to 243 destinations in 105 countries globally By Taddewo Senyonyi On January 6, 2014, this writer set out to Istanbul, the business hub…