uganda tour and safari news

By Kiiza Calah
Uganda gorilla safari news

The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has began a drive to promote wildlife conservation and local tourism.

The move is to popularise Uganda’s rich wildlife heritage among students, according to the director of tourism and business development, Eunice Nyiramahoro.

He said there was need for the Government to give incentives to the industry to allow easy accessibility to the national parks in Uganda.

Speaking at the closure of a two-week sensitisation seminar at Makerere University, Nyiramahoro said: “People are constrained because tour companies are expensive. But the ministry of tourism is working on ways to make accessing the national parks easier.”

“We need to put infrastructure in place to attract more local tourists,” she said.

“We have heard you say that those parks are for Bazungu (whites). We want to change that,” Nyiramahoro added.

The organisation, She said, had given students free entrance to the parks provided they had valid student identification.

Nyiramahoro said UWA was devising ways of reaching all universities to develop students’ interest in the sector.

The climax of the day was a raffle where the winner, Judith Dushimimana, a student of Psychology, won a three-day fully paid tour of Murchison Falls or Queen Elizabeth Game Park.