Published on : Thursday, April 19, 2018
While delivering a speech to the journalists in Kampala, Ephraim Kamuntu the Tourism minister, explained that jointly with the Work Bank funded Competitive Enterprise Development Programme (CEDP) they anticipate the ground breaking ceremony in terms of the construction works to start next month even though funding has been reduced quite a bit.
When questioned from where they will secure the balance to top up the shortfall, the executive director Uganda Tourism Board, Stephen Asiimwe explained that the difference had been caused due to fluctuations in dollar and it would be attuned to reveal the current dollar rates. The Uganda Hotel and Tourism Training Institute, is a government hotel and tourism professionals training institute set up by the Parliament back in 1994 to instruct the Ugandans in hotel management and tourism-related courses.
It is located in the former Crested Crane Hotel in Jinja.
Uganda’s rehabilitation and building of a modern hotel and tourism training institute has become an insincere effort after a number of investigations into economic loss related to tourism have pointed fingers towards it as a conduit for theft of donor funds.
“If you go to all the top hotels in the country, you will find that they are managed by foreigners. We do not have Ugandans there so we must build our local expertise. Anytime next month we shall be going for the ground breaking ceremony,” he said.
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