{"id":18993,"date":"2020-10-06T16:19:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=18993"},"modified":"2020-10-06T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:20:04","slug":"lukwago-roots-for-promotion-of-local-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/06\/lukwago-roots-for-promotion-of-local-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukwago Roots For Promotion Of Local Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, has implored Ugandans to embrace local tourism in order to increase domestic revenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made the remarks while unveiling the Impala monument, a gorilla monument in memory of \u201cRuhondeza\u201d, a male gorilla, who was a leader of Mubare group in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kampala derives its name from the animal Impala, a type of antelope which used to graze on the slopes of Mengo and some other hills of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name \u201cHill of the Impala\u201d (Akasozi Ka Impala) was given specifically to the hill on which Captain Fredrick Lord Lugard, a British administrator, established his camp on December 18, 1890<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Lukwago made a commitment regarding the promotion of Kampala as a hub for investment and tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lukwago noted that Kampala has a rich cultural heritage, beautiful land scape, good soils which need to be promoted by local tourists before thinking of foreign tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that a boost in local tourism will result into increased domestic revenues which contributed to economic growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, has implored Ugandans to embrace local tourism in order to increase domestic revenues. He made the remarks while unveiling the Impala monument, a gorilla monument in memory of \u201cRuhondeza\u201d, a male gorilla, who was a leader of Mubare group in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Kampala derives its name from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":18994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,469],"tags":[1201,2105,2807],"class_list":["post-18993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel","tag-erias-lukwago","tag-kampala-city","tag-local-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18996,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions\/18996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}