UGANDA MAKES IT TO 4TH SPOT OF TRAVEL HOT SPOTS
(Posted 04th January 2017)
Uganda, aka the Pearl of Africa, has made it into the Rough Guides top positions, coming in fourth place after India, Scotland and Canada for the year 2017.
This development is seen as a shot in the arm for Uganda’s tourism industry, which has not been performing to its potential for some time now.
Come February will the Uganda Tourism Board stage the 3rd edition of the Pearl of Africa Travel Expo, hashtagged #POATE2017, and nearly 100 hosted buyers and international travel media personnel are expected to come to Kampala for the event which is taking place between the 17th and 19th of February.
Fam Trips will take hosted buyers and invited media to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park for gorilla tracking, to Queen Elizabeth National Park but also to Murchisons Falls and Kidepo Valley national parks, to sample the wide range of landscapes and spectacular wild- and birdlife Uganda has to offer to visitors. Some of the invited guests will also have the opportunity to track rhinos on foot at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary of the Rhino Fund Uganda, where now 19 Southern White rhinos can be seen.
Jinja, aka Adventure Capital of East Africa, and the upper Nile valley too are on the visiting schedule to see the activities on the river like boating, kayaking and rafting, but also bungee jumping, quad biking, horse riding and cross country cycling.
Following Uganda came Bolivia in fifth place, Nicaragua in sixth place, Portugal in seventh place, Finland in eighth, Namibia in ninth and Taiwan in tenth place. Notably did only Uganda and Namibia make it into the top ten travel destination hot spots of the Rough Guides, which have inspired generations of travelers to explore the less traveled paths and get off the beaten tracks for unrivalled adventures.
Added information can be found via www.roughguides.com
