Tourists with locals in a Uganda village

The Uganda Tourism Board is asking the government to increase funding to tourism sector in order to help the country better tap the potential of tourism.

At a workshop in Kampala today, the Chairman of the Uganda Tourism Board Edwin Muzahura said that tourism is not picking well in Uganda because the Board is not well funded to advertise the country internationally.

Muzahura says that the Board has only 600 million shilling budget while their Kenya counterparts spend billions of shillings to market their country to potential tourists.

Tourism is one of the leading foreign exchange earners for Uganda, and Muzahura says it could become the biggest foreign exchange earner if Uganda’s potential is well marketed.