Uganda, March 20 -- The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic altered different sectors. Some have recovered while others are still finding their feet. The tourism industry was not spared either. It was pegged back with no activity for months.
Tourist attractions were closed, people could not travel which led to massive losses. "We stopped working for more than four months. I had to lay off five employees because I could not pay their wages," says Immaculate Kemigisha Wampamba, the managing director of Terrace Uganda Safaris and Tours Limited.
The grounding of flights from different parts of the world made things even worse. Local travel operators were left feeling the pinch. "Foreign tourists stopped coming in and even after the lockdown wa...