Tour operators among other stakeholders in Uganda and Ethiopia have been urged to promote tourism products and services in both countries as a single destination. This development will greatly improve the freedom of movement between the countries and Kara-Tunga’s initiative for cross-border tourism development in the region.
Easing VISA process
Sisay Getachew, a tourism expert from Ethiopia’s ministry of tourism, shared their willingness to ease the VISA process and reopening all the closed tourism destinations as well as the newly developed high-class tourist destinations in Ethiopia.
Joint tourism packages
He thus urged Uganda tour operators to include Ethiopia’s tourism sites on their packages as well as Ethiopia tour operators to promote Uganda as the Pearl of Africa. He further expressed Ethiopia’s interest to create joint regional tourism packages with other countries in East Africa in order to compete in the global tourism market.
Saturday 21st October 2022 – The Dutch ambassador flagged off the Tour of Karamoja and launched the Warrior Nomad Trail. Through eco-tourism development Kara-Tunga Tours fosters peace, prosperity, conservation and creates jobs in the Karamoja region. Additionally, the Tour supports 20 girls to access education through Ride 4 Girl Child initiative.
Skilling Karamoja Hiking Guides on Mount Moroto – Kara-Tunga is building a sustainable community-lead regional tourism sector through skilling with the Karamoja Tourism Academy. Together with our partners, we develop demand-based curriculum, train local trainers and local assessors aimed at increasing the accessibility and inspiring the community.
Uganda’s northeast Karamojaland has kept many secrets due Its inaccessibility, only recently, researchers and scholars have started to explore these forgotten corners of the country. Kara-Tunga hosted two Kenya-based researchers for 10 days Trekking of Uganda’s Mount Kadam, in search for the unknown but with the gut feeling of finding something special to come back …
The Adventure Tourism Uganda training modules can be used by anyone with an interest in training others in the skills needed for a career in adventure tourism.
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Uganda and Ethiopia region as single Tourist Destination
Tour operators among other stakeholders in Uganda and Ethiopia have been urged to promote tourism products and services in both countries as a single destination. This development will greatly improve the freedom of movement between the countries and Kara-Tunga’s initiative for cross-border tourism development in the region.
Easing VISA process
Sisay Getachew, a tourism expert from Ethiopia’s ministry of tourism, shared their willingness to ease the VISA process and reopening all the closed tourism destinations as well as the newly developed high-class tourist destinations in Ethiopia.
Joint tourism packages
He thus urged Uganda tour operators to include Ethiopia’s tourism sites on their packages as well as Ethiopia tour operators to promote Uganda as the Pearl of Africa. He further expressed Ethiopia’s interest to create joint regional tourism packages with other countries in East Africa in order to compete in the global tourism market.
Source: New Vision (Uganda) and ENA (Ethiopia)
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