Uganda martyrs’ day celebrations draw Tourism boards closer.

Just last year, there was a ‘Coalition of the Willing’ that  saw the introduction of such tourism related proposals like the introduction of the common tourist Visa and the use of  the joint exhibition spaces at major tourism trade fairs.

All the tourist boards from all the three countries have agreed to support the key events in each country which can be very useful in the promotion of tourism and it was manifested during the Martyrs Day celebration which just ended yesterday here in Uganda. Observers from the Kenya Tourism Board and from the Tourism and Conservation Department of the Rwanda Development Board were part of the celebrations. There were hundreds of thousands of locals who were joined by thousands of visitors from all the three countries, so many came from the wider region, there are so many that walked for many days from different corners of the world making the pilgrimage to the martyrs’ shrines.

For the past years, tourism Uganda has been identified as religious or pilgrimage tourism as a new niche and strongly promoted the event abroad and the new founded partnership with neighbors like Kenya and Rwanda, so there is no doubt this will help to further publicize this already high profile event.

 Uganda and Kenya will be present with their official delegations in the forthcoming gorilla naming festival also called the Kwita Izina, to beheld on the 21st of June and this will be the 10th anniversary since the event was launched in 2005. Conservationists from around the world are expected will join thousands of Musanze residents in Kingigi outside the park headquarters of the Volcanoes National Park to see 16 gorilla babies that will be named this year.

Later this year, Rwanda and Uganda will then join hands with their Kenyan colleagues and attend the Magical Kenya Travel Expo in Nairobi which is a tourism trade fair of great importance and they expect over a hundred hosted buyers attend alongside over 100 invited media personnel who will be very much useful in boosting Kenya’s market position and help to promote not just Kenya but across the whole world.

According to sources, the three countries have kept the door open for Burundi Tourism to join them. This is will be the perfect opportunity for Burundians to name their own national event for regional support and ensure wider promotion and also be able to benefit from a strengthened partnership.  The invitation is also open for the Tanzanian colleagues.    

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