We had an inspiring workshop facilitated by ATEDO to empower site guides in Karamoja to become champions of cultural heritage preservation. As Karamoja's popularity as a tourist destination grows, it's crucial for tour operators and site guides to offer authentic and enriching experiences while safeguarding our cultural identity. This workshop marked the beginning of an [...]
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Guides attend Workshop Sustainable Cultural Tourism
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First Aid training for Tourism and Hospitality Professionals in Karamoja
First Aid Training for Tourism and Hospitality Professionals in Karamoja - Karamoja Tourism Academy (KTA) and the Warrior Nomad Trail initiative aim at building a competitive regional tourism sector by building the capacity of tourism and hospitality stakeholders. The intended result is to scale up the basic knowledge of first aid to advance in the [...] More -
Official launch ‘Boost employability Karamoja tourism staff’
Today we officially launched the 'Boost the Employability of Tourism staff in Elgon and Karamoja' project! The project is part of a larger initiative to enable sustainable and decent income-generating employability for Ugandan youth. The French Embassy in Uganda funds the project and is led by EyeOpenerWorks. Karamoja Tourism Academy and Elgon Tourism Academy are [...] More -
Start of project: Boost employability tourism staff Karamoja
Karamoja Tourism Academy and partners kickstarted the 'Boost the Employability of Tourism employees in Elgon and Karamoja' project. 20 ambitious business leaders participated in the first workshop to develop the framework for the 2 years project. The project aims at addressing the emerging needs of the rapidly developing tourism sector in northeast Uganda. It focuses [...] More -
Call for Tourism Business Owners in Karamoja
Are you a tourism or hospitality business in Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region? and would you like to improve the skills of your staff? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you! APPLY HERE. What are we looking for? Registered tourism businesses (hotels, lodges, CBOs, tour operators, activity providers) in Northeastern Uganda. Determination among owners and managers [...] More -
Boosting Employability of Tourism Staff in Karamoja
Are you a tourism or hospitality business in Uganda's Karamoja sub-region? and would you like to improve the skills of your staff? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you! The Ukarimu Employability Training project Background and objectives Uganda’s youth often struggle to find meaningful employment to better their lives, while the growing Uganda tourism [...] More -
Graduation Skilled Girls in Hospitality Karamoja
Graduation of Skilled Hospitality Girls in Karamoja by Matany Girls Vocational School under Skills For Jobs program sponsored by Enabel Uganda. More -
Graduation of 25 skilled Karamoja Site Guides
The 25 young women and men are coming from allover the region and have developed 25 new tourist products! They also learned about pricing, marketing, guiding and other practical adventure and community tourism skills. The site guides will be recognised by "Uganda Safari Guides Association" and marketed under the Warrior Nomad Trail initiative. We are [...] More -
Expedition Planning training for Warrior Nomad Trail
Tour operators and trip planners from Mount Rwenzori, Mount Elgon and Karamoja sub-region Warrior Nomad Trail are participating in a workshop "Expedition Planning". They're covering subjects like: Principles and philosophy of expedition planning, supplies and food, route and Itinerary, logistics and group dynamics. This training is organised by Dutch hiking travel agent Bergwandelen.com and supported [...] More -
Launch Karamoja Hospitality and Site Guiding Training
This week we officially kickstarted the skilling of 75 youth from Karamoja in hospitality, tourism and site guiding. Uganda is one of world's youngest countries and is facing a huge challenge with its unemployed youth. On the contrary, there's a lack of skilled staff in the tourism and hospitality sector in the country. As Karamoja [...] More
