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		<title>Tourism players react to UWA&#8217;s Boss suspension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moses Mapesa, the suspended Executive Director of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, as  he awaits a final decision from a probe team looking into his alleged mismanagement of funds and a possible flout of rules of procedure, some tourism players have already delivered a guilty verdict on his tenure.
A probe team, instituted by the Ministry of Trade, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katonatours.com/blog/?p=187</link>
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		<title>Uganda Tourist Board offices shift to Kololo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Uganda Tourist Board (UTB) Offices, aka Tourism Uganda, have finally shifted to their new location in the upscale Kololo suburb on Acacia   Avenue, near Protea Kampala Hotel and the Metropole Hotel, after years of hiding in a much criticized basement location.
For many years the supposed showcase for Uganda’s tourism industry was located [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katonatours.com/blog/?p=183</link>
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		<title>Uganda Safari Manager challenges reports over gorilla rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Director of Uganda Safari, Ms Pamela Kertland Wright, has defended her company’s exclusive monopoly over the gorilla sites in western Uganda, saying it was part of the condition for their $2 million (about Shs4 billion) investment.
Ms Kertland told the probe committee instituted by the Minister of Trade, Tourism and Industry, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katonatours.com/blog/?p=181</link>
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		<title>East Africa Community (EAC) parks to be graded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National parks in the East African Community Countries are to be graded, an official from the Association of Uganda Tour Operators has revealed.
Mr Bonifance Byamukama the chairman Tour Operators Association said the exercise will be carried out depending on the products available in the parks and under this arrangement parks will be given different stars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katonatours.com/blog/?p=177</link>
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		<title>More Top Uganda Wildlife Authority Bosses Suspended</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three more top officials at the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) have been suspended to pave way for an audit report.
Eunice Mahoro, the director of tourism development, Joseph Tibaijuka, the acting executive director, and Olive Kyampaire, the partnership coordinator. This brings to five the number of UWA officials on suspension.
Moses Mapesa, the executive director, and Sam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katonatours.com/blog/?p=174</link>
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		<title>Uganda shines at China expo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OVER one million people have so far visited the Ugandan stall at the ongoing World Expo in Shanghai, China to look at the world’s rare animal, the mountain gorilla.
Ann Karungi, a Uganda Export Promotions Board official, told Ugandan journalists on a tour of China that she could not tell the number of people they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katonatours.com/blog/?p=171</link>
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		<title>Can Eco-Tourism Save endangered Mountain Gorillas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the world, there are just 700 of the mountain gorillas left on the planet, all of them living in the volcanic mountains spanning Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Decades of conflict in the region, along with poaching and human encroachment on their habitat have threatened their survival.
But money from 'gorilla tourism' has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katonatours.com/blog/?p=168</link>
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		<title>Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) Gets New Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), the Tourism promotion arm of the country, has got a new home.
Formerly located in the basement of Impala House on Kimathi   Avenue, UTB has moved to its new offices located at Windsor Crescent, in Kampala's posh Kololo suburb.
Located in about an acre of land, the plush spacious office [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katonatours.com/blog/?p=165</link>
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		<title>UWA graft probe-team named</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Minister of Trade, Tourism and Industry Mr. Kahinda Otafiire has appointed Col. Stephen Kwiringira to head the committee to investigate allegations of corruption against two suspended top Uganda Wildlife Authority officials.
Other members on the committee include Mr Amos Wekesa, the chairman Uganda Tourism Association, Dr John Bosco Nizeye from Makerere University and Mr Denis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katonatours.com/blog/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Uganda Removes Limits to Tourism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Uganda Government has decided to remove exclusive zones in her national parks to boost park tourism following the construction of new accommodation facilities.
Twenty years ago, the Uganda Government gave exclusive rights to a few hoteliers to build accommodation facilities in the country's three major national parks.
While the rights were aimed at boosting a dormant sector [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katonatours.com/blog/?p=159</link>
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