Uganda: Game Parks to Get 5-Star Hotels
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New Vision (Kampala)
29 July 2008
Posted to the web 30 July 2008
Paul Tentena
Kampala
SIX five-star hotels are to be constructed in six national parks to boost tourism, the tourism state minister, Serapio Rukundo, has said.
Kidepo National Park, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Murchison Falls National Park, Lake Mburo National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park would get the hotels.
"We are in negotiations with investors like Kempinski Hotels, Hilton Hotels, Sheraton Hotels and Serena Hotels to construct these hotels by 2012," Rukundo said while launching the Pearl of Africa Tree at Akright Kakungulu Satellite City on Entebbe Road.
He said more hotels were needed near game parks to accommodate tourists.
"For our tourists to face nature in its virginity, see animals like climbing lions and relax, accommodation within the parks has to be improved."
Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in Uganda, with earnings expected to reach $500m (about sh820b) annually.
Last year, over 770,000 people visited Uganda. They included businesspeople, conference attendants, cross border tourists and participants at the Commonwealth summit.
Urban planning state minister, Urban Tibamanya, said the Government was looking for investors to partner with Kampala slum-dwellers to develop the slums.
He said the investors would construct storeyed buildings and share floors with the slum-dwellers.
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