Promoting Cultural tourism in Rwanda

A new campaign that is intended to encourage the local people to visit their country’s historical and cultural sites in an effort to improve on the domestic tourism and market culture tourism sites has been launched in Huye-Rwanda. This program is intended to help the citizen know more about the many historical and cultural places that the country while at the same time exercising to be fit and healthy.

The exercise was launched with a mass public sport that involved hundreds of residents and officials, who walked for over two hours from the outskirts of Huye town and finished on top of Huye Mountain which is one of the topographies that make Ibisi bya Huye, a chain of hills standing at 2,400 meters of altitude stretching between Huye, Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru districts.

The Nyagakecuru mountains legend follows a notorious woman Nyagakecuru who had her home there during the 18^th century and is said to have ruled the area around Butare up to Burundi. History reveals that she was feared by many kings. According to sources, she always managed to resist all the attacks from the different king’s army trying to annex the area she ruled.

Attractions on this hill include the Nyagakecuru’s home. Joseph Habineza who is the Minister for Sports and Culture said that it is very important to promote that culture because e so many people out there have no idea what there is to offer.   Lots of people are very much interested in cultural tourism and so might increase on the number of revenue collected by the industry and thus development. cultural tourism in being considered by most tour operators across the whole of East Africa