Uganda Safari News

Uganda Travel Guide – Tourism News & Updates

Uganda Safari News header image 4

Entries from April 2008

KENYA AIRWAYS HAS SUSPENDED CODE SHARE WITH RWANDAIR.

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

By Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safari News Reporter Kampala Uganda. Kenya Airways formally suspended its code sharing deal with Rwandair after the Rwandan carrier reportedly opted for an aircraft that has not passed a safety certification test, the airlines top executive said last week. The Kenya Airways, Rwandair code share deal was suspended early last week [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Uncategorized

KENYA AIRWAYS INCREASES ITS AIR FARES.

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

By Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safari Guide Reporter Kampala Uganda. Kenya Airways (KQ) has planned to hike it’s airfares over the next two months in order to meet the growing cost of fuel and new taxes, airlines executives announced last week. Kenya Airways (KQ) managing director Mr. Titus Naikuni said that jet fuel had increased too [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Uncategorized

AMULTI-BILLION LUXURY LODGE TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK.

April 26th, 2008 · No Comments

By Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safari Guide Reporter Kampala Uganda Three multibillion-hotel/lodge projects are expected to be constructed in the Serengeti National Park, Northern Tanzania and Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania upon approval by the government. The projects, Serengeti Eco-Lodge (SEL) and Grumeti Luxury Tented Camp (GLTC) will be carried out by the Arusha based [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Uncategorized

THE REASON AS TO WHY UWA DECIDED PRIVATIZE GORILLA PERMITS.

April 19th, 2008 · No Comments

By Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safari Guide Reporter Kampala Uganda Gorilla tourism is big business in Uganda’s tourism sector, raking in close to half a million US dollars in a single month in permit fees alone. That is minus the other money that tourists who come to see the famous Mountain Gorillas spend within Uganda’s borders [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Uncategorized

NEW RHINO SANCTUARY WILL DEVELOP UGANDA’S TOURISM INDUSTRY.

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

By Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safari Guide Reporter Kampala,Uganda. The new Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary is just a two-hours drive from Kampala,  situated on the road to Gulu the same routes that leads to Murchison Falls National Park. This sanctuary has been set up to add on the tourism sites in Uganda which will help to develop [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Uncategorized

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UWA IS BEING ACCUSED OVER GORILLA PERMITS.

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments

By Nakiboneka Halimah Uganda Safari Guide Reporter Kampala Uganda Tour operators have asked Moses Mapesa, the executive director of the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), to give them an explanation as to why he gave one tour company monopoly over gorilla tracking in Nkuringo, located in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The tour operators in a meeting [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Uncategorized

New travel website launched

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

A new travel website http://www.tour-uganda.com has been launched in Uganda.  This travel website offers unrivalled updated information on safety and security conditions in Uganda and Rwanda, travel tips, gorilla tourism, Uganda’s  national parks  as well as Rwanda’s protected areas. The new travel website is owned by Primates Adventure Company is a specialized proven safari company [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Uncategorized