Uganda, March 23 -- Two parallel events - positive and negative - happened at the weekend in regard to the tourism sector.
To begin with, the good news - as was reported by this newspaper yesterday - is that Uganda Wildlife Authority has extended the 50 per cent discount on park entrance fees, gorilla permits, birding fees and chimpanzee permits by three more months to end of June to promote visits to the country's national parks.
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that necessitated lockdowns globally, the sector suffered the most yet it was the country's top foreign earner.
Uganda earned $1.6b (about Shs5.8 trillion) from tourism in the 2018/2019 financial year, making the sector the country's leading foreign currency earner for the f...