Greetings from Uganda Community Tourism Association,

It is yet another time when we share our interesting experience in the Tourism industry. This moment is usually filled with admiration as we look back on the long journey that community tourism in Uganda has come. We cannot help but applaud each and every one of you for the great contribution in making the journey of a thousand miles worth. On an applousable note, we welcome you back from Namugongo Martyr’s shrine and for those who did not go we share sentiments and joyous memories for those faith heroes. They are and will always be remembered and cherished.

We are once more honored to share with you some of the milestones made during the previous months. Our Community Based Tourism activities have taken us to the adrenaline raising hiking of the Tororo rock in Eastern Uganda, the traditional hunting experience in Mityana and the equally amazing happy endings. Worth commending is the new team of FK Participants from Kenya and the Homecoming Fellows. We welcome and congratulate the teams respectively.
It has been an awesome month. Welcome aboard and let us walk this beautiful journey together.

Enjoy the reading!!

UCOTA News

UCOTA’s office has relocated

Uganda Community Tourism Association wishes to inform all stakeholders, partners and friends that the office has been shifted from plot 7A, Lugogo Bypass to Bukoto Plot 1732 Old Kira Road. The office contacts remain the same. Telephone:ucota See map for directions.

Registration of Community Based Tourism Enterprises (CBTEs).
UCOTA is to spearhead inventory development of all community Based tourism enterprises (CBTEs) in Uganda starting July 2015. All managers of CBTEs are therefore encouraged to register their CBTEs then either through (1) UCOTA websites; ucota ,info, (3) Phone (direct calls/ sms) 414 501866, 0772657700, 0712500019 or physically at the office (map below). The registration information includes;
Name and type of enterprise, location, ownership (if community number of males/females), contacts, services offered and prices, number of staff, number direct and indirect beneficiaries and community development projects supported by enterprise.

Why register?

1. To plan for better service delivery by both government and UCOTA e.g capacity building and marketing.
2. Be part of the National CBTE inventory

Your cooperation towards the exercise shall be highly appreciated.

KAFRED’s wins Africa Responsible Tourism Award 2015.
One of our own Kibale Association For Rural and Environmental Development (KAFRED), emerged finalists for the African Responsible Tourism Awards 2015. and latter won Silver at the African Responsible Tourism 2015 Awards Event on 16th April in the just concluded World Travel Market in South Africa. This prestigious award was received by Babra Adoso from Asyanut Tours-Safaris and Duncan from Great Lakes Safaris who represented KAFRED and Uganda. We were the only Ugandan organization that remained in the race "paka last". Read more
Study trip by OVOTP to Ruboni
UCOTA under her One Village One Tourism Product OVOTP program facilitated a three day study tour to Ruboni for ten of the trained enterprises/ service providers in Kichwambwa sub-county Rubirizi district with the aim of having them learn from Ruboni Community Camp. Read more

FK end of program and new participants coming in.

In April 2015, UCOTA bid farewell to two of her staff as she welcomed back two from Kenya just as it has been since 2011. UCOTA has been in a personnel exchange partnership with KECOBAT (Kenya Community based Tourism Network) since 2011. The partnership is sponsored by Fredskorpset (FK) Norway, a Norwegian government supported program that supports organizations and companies both in Norway and in developing countries to exchange staff. Read more

UCOTA participates in Entanda fam trip
In the bid to develop community tourism and promote domestic tourism in the country and amongst the people, a fam trip was organised to introduce different stakeholders to newly developed attraction of traditional activities in a Buganda homestead. Over 70 people participated in the fam trip. Read More
By Beryl Brenda

The Tororo Rock Hike
UCOTA participated in the Tororo rock hike that was organized by Eastern Entrepreneurship & Tourism Network (EETN) in conjunction with other stakeholders to raise funds in support of the Salvation Army school painting in Tororo as well as promote the unique tourism product to the general public especially to the domestic market. The hike was well attended with hundreds of participants from areas like Entebbe, Kampala and Jinja thronging the site, very eager and enthusiastic to ‘bring the rock down on its knees’. Read more
By Paulo

Advertising Opportunities
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