Tour operators are crying foul over last week’s decision by Rwanda Development Board (RDB) to increase gorilla permit fees, stating that it has greatly affected their business. Last week, RDB announced that government had hiked gorilla permit rates by 50 percent with effect from 1st June, 2012. The charges for foreign non residents will increase […]
The private sector of Rwanda that is involved in tourism and hospitality industry has disagreed with the current increase of gorilla permit by 50% because it might endanger their business. The non residents will pay $750 from $500, Rwandan national will pay $50 from $33 and foreigners staying in Rwanda will pay $375 instead of […]
Uganda’s revenue has increased in the current years because of the increased number of tourists visiting the National parks and wildlife reserves According to the tourism statistics, In 2004,125,203 visitors were received in the national parks and in 2009 it rose to around 145,000. Because in 1999, tourists were killed in Bwindi, in 1998-2001, there […]
Akagera National park is located at a relatively low altitude on the border with Tanzania. It could scarcely be more different in mood to the breezy cultivated hills that characterize much of Rwanda.Dominated scenically by the labyrinth of swamps and lakes that follow the meandering course of the Akagera River the most remote source of […]
Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of Uganda’s most popular parks and is reported to have more than 610 bird species the most prevalent of any protected area in Africa. The main camp at Mweya is attractively positioned at a peninsular separating the channel from Lake Edward, the fine views of Rwenzori Mountains to the […]
The Rwanda Development Board has said starting from 1st June 2012; the gorilla permit will be sold at $750 from $500. The added amount will be used to further improve measures for the apes, finance conservation efforts research and community outreach which all depend on the income created by tourists that come to view the […]
The local airline industry in Tanzania has been employing unskilled pilots therefore leading to grave disasters in the countries skies. The ministry of transport has recorded three out of the 12 aircraft accidents that happened in 2011 because of the unskilled pilots. Pilots in the country have been allowed to speculate into the skies no […]
Rwanda is a small landlocked country known for the genocide in 1992 but with the presence of gorillas in the country, people will see why the country is important to be visited. The rare mountain gorillas Rwanda is one of the countries in Africa where the gorillas can be found. The apes are found in […]
According to the ministry of tourism, wildlife and heritage recordings, the revenue got from gorilla tourism and the whole sector at large, 20% of the entrance fee has been given to the residents and the rest to the national treasury. For the past 30 years in Uganda, the primates have become one of the top […]
The tourism sector of Kenya has been searching for Shs 30 billion in the next coming years to increase infrastructures and tourism facilities in order to improve on the revenue. This means in the 2012 budget, the tourism sector needs more than Sh9 billion so that it can develop its products to compete with other […]