The past week and a half witnessed the launch of “MV Mwanza – Hapa Kazi Tu” at the Mwanza South Port of Lake Victoria, Tanzania, East Africa. The 3.5k GRT, 92.6 meter-long, 17-meter wide, and 20-meter-high vessel has a capacity of 1,200 passengers, 400 tons of cargo, 20 small vehicles, and 3 trucks. It was […]
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 […]
Uganda to host the 7th edition of the Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo from 8th -11th, February 2023, Uganda Tourism Board has announced. The tourism expo will be help in Kampala, Ugandan capital and business city. All Uganda Tour Operators and Travel Agents are invited to attend meet hotels, resorts, safari lodges and regional tourism […]
Female-owned companies propelled women to the pinnacle of the travel and hospitality industry in Uganda, when Nkuringo Safari Lodges CEO Lydia Eva Mpanga and Eugene Windt Nsubuga’s Swanair joined the stars of travel, tourism and hospitality at the World Travel Awards at a red-carpet reception held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), in Nairobi, […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
Effective this Friday 22 February 2022, MV Kalangala the only public sailing vessel, plying the Entebbe-Kalangala Ssese route, will temporarily suspend operations to undergo annual mandatory docking inspection. According to Mr Sadala Musoke, the chief executive officer, Nation Oil Distributors Ltd (NODL), a firm managing the MV Kalangala vessel, when MV Kalangala ferry sails to […]
Toyota Uganda Limited, the market leader in Uganda’s new vehicle industry, announced on 2nd February 2022 that it has changed its name to CFAO Motors Uganda. This transformation goes hand in hand with the progressive expansion of the range of solutions offered by the company. Present in Uganda since 2005 under the name of Toyota […]
Uganda government has suspended mandatory COVID-19 testing on arrival at entry ports, in line with East African Community (EAC) member states. Individuals transiting through Entebbe International Airport, Uganda’s major international airport and all ports of entry in line with the position taken by the East Africa Community are no longer required to be tested. This […]
