Dear ATC Readers,
Welcome to the latest UCOTA E-newsletter. This issue features news from UCOTA and other tourism related information from our member community enterprises, and Uganda tourism industry stakeholders. Our editorial team would like to appreciate you for taking some time off to read this issue. We wish to get feedback and comments with an aim of improving our subsequent editions. We thank you for visiting and interacting with us on the UCOTAfacebook, twitter andblog pages. You can also visit our websites www.ucota.or.ug, www.pearlsofuganda.org for more information.
We wish you enjoyable reading…!
Thank you!
Helen Lubowa
Executive Director
UCOTA NEWS
Ruboni; Buraru Community Forest Conservation training and Management Planning
Another conservation landmark has been achieved by Uganda Community Tourism Association (UCOTA) in Rwenzori region, western Uganda. UCOTA recently completed development of the Buraro community Forest management Plan and training of 45 household farmers and several conservation stakeholders in forest conservation. The training was aimed at enhancing community natural resources (Buraru community forest) conservation to ease implementation of the forest management plan. This intervention raised conservation awareness to wider community than had ever been reached and mobilised other conservation stakeholders in the area to elicit collective effort to mitigate the rampant indigenous forest degradation. The program involved local leaders, conservation rangers from Rwenzori Mountains National Park, community household farmers and RCCDP membership in categories of tourist guides, secretariat and board members. Read more
UCOTA has set off to develop the Community East African Destination Portal
UCOTA is has started sending out invitations to community Based tourism Enterprises to be show cased on the portal as community products being sold in Uganda. This portal is a one stop site which markets east African tourism products which have been developed for tourism consumption and hence for Uganda contribute the achieving of the middle income status goal of Uganda’s vision 2020. Read more
Blue Star home stay – Sipi Falls
Blue Star homestay is located near Sipi Falls, in a village setting surrounded by banana plantations on the foothills of Mount Elgon eastern Uganda. This homestay enables you to mix and understand the village life around the foothills of the beautiful volcanic mountains landscape. Read more
Community Enterprise of the month
The Crow’s Nest Rest Camp
The Crow’s Nest Rest Camp is beautifully situated at an altitude of 1,770m on the slopes of Mount Elgon. The site offers spectacular views of all the three Sipi waterfalls, the peaks of Mount Elgon and the plains far below. The friendly staff, comfortable facilities design, local employment and culture exchange makes The Crow’s Nest an ideal tourist spot and a sustainable life changing icon for Sipi village. Read More
Kisizi Falls a beautiful sight with a sad cultural history
Located in the district of Rukungiri in the south west of Uganda about 22km to the south of Rukungiri district headquarters and about 46km North of Kabale which is the largest town in the Sub region one meets Kisizi Falls. The historical Kisizi falls is positioned on River Rushoma that flows south west along the extended valley arising from the Muhanga area before falling 30m below and then continuing to the north east emptying into Lake Edward. Read more
Tribute to fallen Tourism Minister
Hon. Dr. Maria Lubega Mutagamba
It is not long since she parted from the tourism fraternity. She made tremendous contribution to the development of the tourism sector and the nation as a whole. UCOTA pledges to build on her innovative additions to the development of community tourism subsector and tourism as a whole.
May her soul Rest in Eternal Peace.
TOURISM NEWS
Further reading
Events
- Buganda tourism expo: 29thAugust- 4th September 2017
- 35th Conference of the AEAA 7 – 11 August Kampala, Uganda
- ATA 28th- 31st August Rwanda
- Akwaaba African Travel Market 2017 September Nigeria
- Kwita Izina Expo September Rwanda
- JATA Tourism Expo 21st -24th September Japan
- World Tourism Day 27-Sep Uganda
- Magical Kenya 3rd October Kenya
- Conservation and Tourism Investment Forum in Uganda: 6th October 2017.
- KCCA city carnival: October 2017
- Uganda international music & culture week: 29th October- 4th November 2017
- African Birding Expo 17th – 19th November Uganda
- WTM London 6th – 8th November London, United Kingdom
Funding opportunities
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- PSFU MATCHING GRANT: Deadline 28th August 2017
Travel Quotes
- ~Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
~For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort. Aldous Huxley
~Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli
~The journey not the arrival matters. T.S. Eliot
~Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
~All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. Martin Buber
~Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station’.
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