The tourists who paid between 350,000 shillings to 1 million shillings were driven to the park by Mabare Tours and Travel and CEO Sam K. Mugabe. The trip to Murchison falls included offers of a boat cruise, game drive, and sightseeing.
Mugerwa isnt the first person to be arrested in such a scenario in this year.On Saturday, Didan Atukunda from Mamba Gorilla Safari was arrested from Kabale by the Tourism Police Regional Commandant of Kigezi region, Emmanuel Tinka for declining to refund an illegal payment to a client.
Richard Ogwang Odyero, the chairperson of Laity in West Lango Diocese, says they will soon build a museum at the site where they store the canoe used by the evangelists to cross River Nile.
An arch made of reeds and bark cloth has been erected on Lugard Road, with some sections of the town decorated with yellow and blue banners, the Kingdom colours, in preparation for the event.
Luwum, the then Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire, was murdered on February 16, 1977 in Kampala and is buried at his ancestral home in Wii Gweng Village, in Mucwini Sub County in Kitgum district. Killed together with the Archbishop were two government ministers, Charles Oboth Ofumbi for Internal Affairs and Lt. Col. Erinayo Oryema for Culture.
Dokolo county MP Felix Okot Ogong criticised Uganda Tourism Board officials for presenting the same challenges to the committee every year without providing any solutions.
Vincent Byarugaba, UTB spokesperson says the process of standardization is still ongoing under UTB. James Ssebagala, the Coordinator Quality Assurance-UTB, says the hotel classification exercise is meant to determine whether a given hotel meets certain essential requirements.
The site is located at Wii Gweng Village in Bura Parish, Mucwini Sub County; 24 Kilometers North East of Kitgum town. It currently hosts the annual celebrations in honor of the former Archbishop who was killed in 1977 allegedly on the orders of the then-President Idi Amin.
The maternal family of late Norah Atim, the Northern Uganda Miss Tourism is demanding for bride price for her mother before handing over her body for burial. The maternal family wants her father George Okello, to pay bride price for her mother Emily Likicho, before they surrender the body.
Asiimwe revealed that the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) has engaged three firms to market Uganda\'s tourism sector in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Australia and Switzerland.
These include shs435million, charged under wrong financial codes contrary to the Treasury Accounting Instructions (TAI\'s). The instructions require all government transactions to be recorded in the books of accounts using the Government of Uganda chart of Accounts as prescribed by the Accountant General.
Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has embarked on rolling out hot air balloon services to National Parks. The balloon uses hot air which is pumped into it, making it lighter and able to float in air. When the hot air cools, the balloon becomes heavier and slowly lands on the ground. It uses direction of the wind to float across.
This is the first time the board is getting a huge budget increment several years. In the 2013/2014 UTB had been earmarked to receive two billion shillings. In the 2012/2013 budget, it received 600 million shillings.
To have right to vote and make submissions with the said organizations, a country must be a fully paid up member, which Uganda had reportedly defaulted for many years. The committee therefore recommended that money be allocated to offset the debts so that Uganda once again can begin to decide on key issues alongside other countries.
Traders from Fort Portal are barely represented. There were only two traders from Fort Portal selling second hand clothes. Richard Rwakijuma, one of the traders, blames the low turn up of local traders to high fees charged by the organizers.
