{"id":1218,"date":"2013-04-29T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/facilitations-of-the-tourism-sector\/"},"modified":"2013-04-29T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:57:15","slug":"facilitations-of-the-tourism-sector","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/facilitations-of-the-tourism-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitations of the Tourism Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Uganda has done the following to facilitate the Tourism sector<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Government allocated 0.13% of total budget to the tourism sector in 2012\/2013 financial year<\/li>\n<li>The government is working in effective partnership with the development partners and private sector to ensure tourism marketing, conservation and skills development<\/li>\n<li>The government has recommended a number of interventions necessary for development of the sector for instance; developing and reviewing all policies<\/li>\n<li>Creating a legal and regulatory framework for the sector and increasing the contribution of tourism to GDP and employment.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitating travel or distribution activities reach product consumers in different tourist destinations<\/li>\n<li>The government has promoted sustainable tourism in the country with a focus on cultural tourism, capacity development and awareness in conservation.<\/li>\n<li>Training of community guides, organized community groups that can provide equipment for rental to tourists who wish to partake of an activity in the area<\/li>\n<li>The government is encouraging the local media and NGO\u2019s to become partners in the tourism awareness process at all levels of society in Uganda.<\/li>\n<li>Promote the involvement of the private sector in the provision of training.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage capacity building among the previously neglected small and medium tourism enterprises and emerging entrepreneurs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Uganda has done the following to facilitate the Tourism sector Government allocated 0.13% of total budget to the tourism sector in 2012\/2013 financial year The government is working in effective partnership with the development partners and private sector to ensure tourism marketing, conservation and skills development The government has recommended a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1218","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The government of Uganda has done the following to facilitate the Tourism sector Government allocated 0.13% of total budget to the tourism sector in 2012\/2013 financial year The government is working in effective partnership with the development partners and private sector to ensure tourism marketing, conservation and skills development The government has recommended a number&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}