2016; The Year of Increased and Improved Tourism in and for Uganda, by Ugandans
By Simon Kaheru FOR a veteran, if I may use the word, of the National Parks with many visits going back to the difficult days when the groups driving through the animal trails very rarely consisted of indigenous Ugandans, this Christmas was both a pleasant and dismaying eye opener. My Christmas in the Park, managed by https://www.shiyaya.travel crowned my year of tourism landmarks and promised me that 2016 would be even bigger for Uganda’s tourism sector, especially local tourism (you, me and ours being tourists) – which means that we have a lot more work to do. The vast pleasantness of my trip lay in seeing so many Ugandans in the Parks, but ironically that also dismayed me somewhat at a few turns and corners – literally, when the car accidents occurred. On one morning, three accidents took place within a radius of a couple of kilometres, and all appeared to be caused by the reckless driving that had my group worried from the time we entered the park and noticed a d...