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Dear
Friends, Thank you for
the interest you have shown in visiting our
country. We believe you
will find we can offer something very special to a
special kind of visitor one who recognizes the
value of an authentic African experience, and the
value tourism itself can bring to an emerging
country such as ours. Uganda has a
rich tourism history, indeed we were one of the
very first popular destinations on the entire
continent of Africa. In 1907 we were visited by no
less than Winston Churchill. His discriminating and
perceptive analysis of what Uganda has to offer was
recorded in "My African Journey", where he wrote
"Uganda is truly the pearl of
Africa". Uganda has lost
none of its beauty, its magic, or its people's
well-earned reputation for hospitality, modesty and
friendliness. With the trials of independence and
civil war now long past, Uganda has once again
opened its doors to tourists. Over the past
three years there has been much work done here by
The Ministry of Tourism, through its associated
agencies the Uganda Tourist Board and the Uganda
Wildlife Authority, to sow the seeds of a brand new
conservation-based form of sustainable tourism.
This innovative programme has benefited greatly
from the invaluable support of the European Union,
USAID and the World Bank. The involvement of these
donors has attracted other partners too in what
promises to be a powerful and effective
collaboration. This partnership
pattern is, in fact, demonstrated at all levels of
our tourism development programme. Mutually
beneficial relationships have been struck, between
communities and protected areas, donors and
government, wildlife and people. The dialogue and
relationships thus formed are helping us to
reconcile economics with ecology, visitor impact
with sustainability, pragmatism with
vision. The key elements
of our young yet vigorous programme are: product
definition; capacity building; training,
conservation education, nature-based resource
consolidation, sustainable use, stakeholder
consultation and coordination. A host of
participants, from the children of the villages
right up to the highest levels of national
government, have joined together to learn and to
create something which offers a brighter future for
all. And what does
all this mean for you, our guest, the vital, final
piece in the stakeholder jigsaw? On the
carefully-designed Uganda Trails you can expect
spectacular landscapes, thrilling white-water
rafting on the Nile, awesome African wildlife,
including the world's most varied primate
populations (did you know that over half the worlds
remaining Mountain Gorillas live here?). You can
look forward to world-class sport fishing, abundant
forests, some of the best bird watching anywhere on
Earth and a hearty welcome from some of the most
resilient and cheerful people you will ever meet,
anywhere! Truly yours To
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