Outstanding Contributions to Africa Award goes to Amos Wekesa, Founder of Great Lakes Safaris. Amos Wekesa is one of the most successful safari tour operators in Uganda. Africa Hospitality Investment Forum took place from 2nd to 4th November 2022 at Fairmont Taghazout Bay, Morocco, North Africa. Africa Hospitality Investment Forum short for AHIF provides a […]
This year Akira Alira brings you 2 festivals. First, the Akira Reset Fest running from 28 to 31 July 2022 in Fort Portal, Uganda Tourism City, to rest and rejuvenate mid year and come back refreshed. Akira Festivals 2022 will run under the theme “Celebrate Tooro Kingdom at 200 Years” Later in the year in […]
DPO Group the largest and the fastest-growing African payment gateway announced that DPO cards are 3-D Secure (or 3DS) enabled! This means client on holiday travel in Africa can now transact on 3DS-enabled websites seamlessly with both DPO physical and virtual cards. The 3DS protocol is an additional security layer for online card transactions. With […]
Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) is hosting its first roadshow in Kenya, offering destination training and showcasing a variety of tourism products to Kenyan tour operators Uganda Tourism hosts the roadshow in Kenya Uganda to boost intra Africa tourism between the two East African countries with a focus on encouraging more tourists from Kenya to explore […]
The number of chimpanzees in Bugoma Central Forest Reserve in Western Uganda has significantly reduced following the destruction of their habitat, reports, Mr. Paul Hatanga, Project Manager Wildlife Conservation Society. In an interview with Kazi-njema News, the manager says a census conducted in 2001 indicated that Bugoma forest was home to an estimated 570 […]
Uganda Named Among The 22 Best Places To Travel Around The World In 2022 by Forbes Travel Advisor Every year, Forbes Advisor round up the best places to visit. This year, in honor of Women’s History Month in March, the company tapped into a handful of women travel experts and influencers to find out the […]
Uganda Airlines, Uganda’s national flag carrier has completed feasibility studies on a number of routes the National Carrier plans to fly to. Some of the routes in question include Mumbai in India, London in United Kingdom, Goma and Lubumbashi (both in the Democratic Republic of Congo). Owing to the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has […]
Uganda Airlines, Uganda’s national flag carrier, has announced that it will launch flights between Entebbe Airport (EBB) and London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR) on select days of the week starting in November 2022. Uganda Airline will operate up to three flights a week to London from November 2022, with flights on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from […]
The Uganda Railway Museum, the first of its kind in Uganda and the second in East Africa, opened 16 March, 2022 in a project put together by the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU) in partnership with the Uganda Railways Corporation (URC), and with support of the European Union and SOGEA-SATOM. Located along the Jinja-Iganga Highway […]
UGANDA JUNGLE LODGES, FIRST SUSTAINABLE TOURIST ACCOMMODATION IN UGANDA by TourCert Uganda Jungle Lodges started in 2011 with two accommodation facility Ishasha Jungle Lodge and Bugoma Jungle Lodge, with a clear number of objectives: build tourist Eco-lodges where the accommodation is actually the meaning for a full experience of nature; identify locations with great potential, […]
