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From 1987 to 1991, the government’s focus was on rehabilitation of the existing tourism facilitiesincluding hotels, lodges and national parks.

The government also set up projects aimed at tourism development for example, by establishing hotels and tourism training institutes.

The number of Uganda tourist arrivals during the period increased from under 25,000 in 1985 to approximately 60,000 tourists in1991.

In 1992, Government launched its Integrated Tourism Development Master Plan, whichhenceforth has been the main policy document driving government’s intervention in the tourismsector.

In this First Table you will find the Uganda Tourist numbers arriving into the country through overland borders.You will see the numbers for travelers arriving via Entebbe Airport in table 2.

Table 1 - Uganda Visitor Arrivals (Numbers) – Non-Ugandan Non Residents by ContinentOver the Period 1998 – 2001 – (Through Busia and Malaba Posts)

Continent	1998	1999	2000	2001
Western Europe	5,389	4,714	3,525	2,743
Other Europe	94	166	67	99
North America	2,033	1,653	1,394	1,164
P.T.A	74,598	72,790	67,153	70,688
Other Africa	6,298	6,682	3,818	3,068
Other	5,047	4,018	2,874	20,403
TOTAL	93,459	90,023	78,831	98,165

Sources: Immigration Department, Civil Aviation Authority, Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Ministry ofFinance, Planning and Economic Development (Statistical Abstract – 2002)

The Uganda Tourist arrivials through Entebbe Airport

Table 2 - Visitor Arrivals (Numbers) – Non-Ugandan Non Residents by ContinentOver the Period 1998 – 2001 – ( Through Entebbe)

Continent	1998	1999	2000	2001
Western Europe	31,515	29,350	25,154	26,033
Other Europe	422	526	387	392
North America	11,857	10,660	10,374	11,383
P.T.A	27,780	27,554	22,843	22,580
Other Africa	12,365	13,708	12,261	12,516
Other	12,996	12,535	10,399	14,056
TOTAL	96,935	94,333	81,418	86,960

Sources: Immigration Department, Civil Aviation Authority, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (StatisticalAbstract – 2002)

Visitors to Uganda are classified under four major categories, namely;

holidays/tourist,

visiting friends or relatives,

business/official,

transit and

others.

The purpose of travel is indicative of the average stay in Uganda and the period especially in the case of holiday visitors. Tables 1 and 2 above show the number of arrivals for visitors who are both non-resident and non-Ugandan.

This category comprises mostly tourists (holiday visitors) and business travelers and accounts for the bulk of so-called touristarrivals in the country.

The United Kingdom, Norway, India and the USA account for the bulk of tourists who come to Uganda from outside Africa.

Uganda Tourists by Country of Residence

Countryof Residence	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Africa	100,225	116,683	116,980	132,240	144,257
Egyptt	616	836	773	533	546
Ethiopia	1,544	1,879	1,704	1,300	1,348
Kenya	59,078	65,501	68,167	60,900	64,933
Sudan	631	758	931	760	2,994
Tanzania	13,902	22,318	20,780	14,375	16,863
D.R. Congo	7,668	4,006	7,552	7,957	5,974
Other Africa	8,179	10,801	9,780	10,354	12,002

America	13,857	14,550	12,898	11,947	12,919
Canada	3,333	2,831	2,539	2,053	1,863
USA	10,097	11,263	9,802	9,593	10,550
Other America	427	456	557	301	499

Asia	10,061	19,166	10,493	8,368	8,163
China	880	881	1,127	945	1,025
India	5,597	7,107	6,206	4,810	4,588
Japan	961	1,054	1,062	773	539
Pakistan	959	843	842	728	926
Other Asia	1,294	1,293	1,256	1,112	1,085

Europe	43,656	45,720	43,133	36,050	36,592
Austria	718	526	442	249	168
Belgium	2,062	1,798	1,649	1,446	1,407
Czechoslovakia	42	57	49	28	43
Denmark	2,171	2,205	2,299	1,654	1,401
Finland	304	296	204	178	133
France	1,960	1,677	1,650	1,320	1,351
Germany	3,324	2,971	3,304	2,497	2,920
Ireland	751	835	765	707	700
Italy	2,036	2,236	2,128	1,560	2,080
Netherlands	2,028	2,236	2,278	2,203	2,111
Norway	7,126	8,554	8,642	6,717	7,090
Russia	159	165	221	139	235
Sweden	2,000	1,813	1,470	1,496	1,257
Switzerland	1,217	1,288	1,001	891	1,087
United Kingdom (UK)	16,451	17,603	15,744	13,954	13,626
Yogoslavia	103	44	64	44	70
Other Europe	1,200	1,279	1,223	967	915

Middle East	3,635	2,778	2,410	11,479	1,248

Oceania	2,972	3,510	2,678	2,069	1,325
Australia	2,093	2,562	1,916	1,550	1,068
New Zealand	879	948	762	519	257

Others not Stated	667	371	755	602	783

TOTAL	175,073	194,790	189,348	192,755	205,287

How much the Uganda Tourist will contribute to your business

Correspondingly, tourism has been one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy withan annual growth rate of 21% over the years 1992 – 2000.

Tourism is emerging as Uganda’s mainforeign exchange earners having overtaken Coffee which has traditional been the key foreignexchange earner in Uganda. Although the general trend remains positive, the tourism sector hassuffered major setbacks over the last years resulting from the political instability in the Great LakesRegion.

In spite of this, the Uganda Tourist numbers have remained steady (see tables 1 and 2).

The tourism sector is one of the key sectors being promoted by the Uganda Investment Authority(UIA). From 1991 to 2002 UIA has licensed 156 projects with over US $ 300 million in plannedinvestment.

This translates into about 6% of total planned investment for the years 1991 to 2002. In2002 alone 12 projects worth US $ 38.4 million were licensed.

Investments in tourism have been primarily directed to the expansion of the capacity needed to meetthe growing tourist influx. These include hotels, lodges, tented camps, serviced apartments, touroperators, casinos, cinemas, restaurants, and white water rafting companies.

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