Uganda Hotel Owners’ Association – UHOA plays a critical role in bringing together travel accommodation players within the travel and tourism industry in Uganda. The industry however has a big opportunity to grow if key stakeholders in Uganda’s tourism industry like Tulavo and UHOA work together.
Although the Uganda Hotel owners’ Association aims at the development of the travel accommodation through capacity building and policy advocacy, there is a big need to grow through partnerships with local tech companies in the tourism industry. This will help in solving local challenges that are affecting the growth of tourism in Uganda.
Tulavo is a hotel booking platform which was founded in 2019 with an objective of helping local hotels in Uganda to gain market visibility in order to compete with bigger hotel brands. The platform gives free marketing and hotel automation solutions to Ugandan hotels whose room rate are below $100 per night.
John Sendagire Kasirye, the proprietor of Deira Hotel in Mukono is one of the hotel owners who are benefitting from the Tulavo services. He told journalists in Mukono that for tourism in Uganda to thrive, Ugandan tourism service providers must create direct linkages aimed at the promotion of the industry.
“The challenge we have is the media in Uganda, the image of Uganda abroad is destroyed by reckless media practitioners who are following the agenda of opposition politicians. These people are holding Ugandans as collateral damage because they want to turn Ugandans against the government”, Sendagire noted. He added that as a Ugandan entrepreneur he is following with keen interest the politics of Uganda saying that most of the players have selfish interests at the cost of Ugandans.
The CEO of Tulavo, Stephen Okhutu advised Uganda Hotel Owners to work with Tulavo in promoting Uganda’s tourism agenda. Tulavo is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company and rated among the fastest growing tourism brand in Africa.
