The President of Uganda Promotes Tourisim In UK.

The President of Uganda Promotes Tourisim In UK.
Friday, March 2nd, 2012

The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni not so long ago officially opened his Presidential program for Sustainable Tourism (PRESTO) in the capital of England London in an effort to draw a larger number of tourists to Uganda than they currently are. At the ceremony, there were a number of tour operators, numerous prospective investors, so many business people, with Ugandans and people from other countries in African in the Diaspora. The presentation was intended to reveal Uganda’s tourism potentials by using posters and pictures of different wildlife, flora and fauna plus the cultural tradition especially the rich Karamanjong culture. During the exhibition, Ugandan coffee and tea was served to the guests at Central hall Westminster. The PRESTO launch comes after the Brussels Expo Holiday Fair in Belgium at the beginning of this month in which Uganda apart.
The minister of Tourism ,Wildlife and Heriatge Prof Ephraim Kamuntu together with his Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Patrick Mugoya also attended the PRESTO’s official opening. The president added that the tourism sector is very important sector in the economy of Uganda given the fact it is a source of employment of number of people in and at the same time a large sum of foreign exchange.
Yeweri Museveni precisely had to launch his program from London because UK is the major source of tourists that come to Uganda while in 2011 Uganda was honored and identified as the best Tourism Destination for this year 2012and was selected by the Lonely Planet. He added that Mountain Ruwenzori national park is one of the best hiking places in the whole of Africa and in the world at large; Virunga Volcanoes is one place that one visits in this year and other 20 selected places that one has got not to miss out. Meanwhile the Bwindi Impenetrable forest which popular because of the existing mountain gorillas selected as best birding place in Africa.
Murchison Falls National Park was among the best 10 birding places in Africa while the popular tree-climbing lions in Ishasha in Queen Elizabeth national park were selected as the photos of the month in the National Geographic magazine.