{"id":23850,"date":"2021-05-17T17:58:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=23850"},"modified":"2021-05-17T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:58:52","slug":"manifesto-week-tourism-ministry-achieves-15-of-17-targets-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/manifesto-week-tourism-ministry-achieves-15-of-17-targets-set\/","title":{"rendered":"MANIFESTO WEEK: Tourism Ministry Achieves 15 of 17 Targets Set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTWAUganda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minister of Tourism Tom Butiime<\/a> , the sector has achieved 15 of the 17 objectives in the past 5 years representing 92% competition rate. Although <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#COVID19<\/a> affected the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal of the ministry is to unleash the tourism potential of the country to contribute to Uganda&#8217;s vision 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Butiime added that, Government undertook market activations and deployed 6 Market Destination Representation (MDR) firms in the core markets UK &amp; Ireland, China, and Japan, North America, UAE, German speaking (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also revealed that, Numbers of leisure visitors- the American market has increased by 10% annually since 2016 until the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020.\u00a0 Visitation to National parks and other selected tourist sites\u00a0 increased by over 8.4% annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">READ MORE BELOW<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NRM-MANIFESTO-commitments-report-for-Tourism-May-2021-2.ppt\">NRM-MANIFESTO-commitments-report-for-Tourism-May-2021-2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NRM-MANIFESTO-commitments-report-for-Tourism-May-2021-2.ppt\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Minister of Tourism Tom Butiime , the sector has achieved 15 of the 17 objectives in the past 5 years representing 92% competition rate. Although #COVID19 affected the department. The goal of the ministry is to unleash the tourism potential of the country to contribute to Uganda&#8217;s vision 2040. Butiime added that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":23854,"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":[356,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23850","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\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23856,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23850\/revisions\/23856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}