As part of events to celebrate this year’s World Tourism Day, the tourism ministry has organized a 200km bicycle ride that will be flagged off in Kampala on September 24 all way to the city of Fort Portal in western Uganda where the national celebrations are cerated to take place.
The Bicycle riding event has gotten nature enthusiasts get set for a symbolic 200km bicycle ride. According to the tourism minister Kiwanda, the event will be joined by Uganda tourism ambassadors Edirisa Musuza aka Eddie Kenzo and Zari Hassan.
The minister further stressed that all the events will climax on September 27, in Fort Portal, the tourism city, with this year’s celebration’s theme Tourism and Rural Development.
“This theme is important because it focuses attention on the plight of the rural communities and the contribution the tourism sector can make in uplifting them,” the state minister for tourism, Godfrey Kiwanda, said.
“Fort Portal is not only a tourism city, but it also has immense examples of communities that have been transformed because of tourism. We want these communities to be an example for the rest of the country; that we necessarily don’t have to destroy nature for development to take place, but it can in turn contribute to the growth of our communities,” Kiwanda added.
“After Mityana town we shall have several stopovers at several tourist sites, for example Embuga ya Nambi, Walumbe Ttanda and the Nakayima Tree in Mubende. We shall have a sleepover in Kibale National Park and the following morning, we shall ride to Fort Portal.”
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