Now that we are in a hated political times and I want you to know how I think about both politics and business and how they are related. In a politically mature country business actually controls politics mainly because businesses pay for the promises that the politicians make and also facilitates their campaigns. Business taxes pay for the hospitals, schools,…
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Social media has very many positives and negatives and the choice of what we want to follow squarely lies with us as individuals. I for example follow people for different reasons, others just make laugh, some because they are my friends and keep up with what they are doing through Social media . I follow others because they are so…
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Covid19 pushed me into thinking about diversification of business after it hit home in March that all the good projected business for this year was no more. Isaiah Rembo had for years asked me to diversify into agro-processing but tourism was doing very well for us and we had grown over the last 19 years anyways. I was a little…
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Davies and I today morning left kampala headed to Kasanje for ridding partly. We did 50kms in today. Davies is an engineer with Uganda national Road authority(UNRA) and yes a key technical guy. I first met him along my advocacy route over years. I have gotten so many inbox messages of young people asking me to write about the value…
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This week the President of Uganda said, we shall lose usd 1.6billion due to Covid19 as potential earning from Tourism this year. I think without covid19, tourisms fortunes were going to be higher than this due to advance bookings we had experienced. As a Country, we haven’t milked this cow called Tourism well partly because we haven’t studied the positive…
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Before I write something about the above subject, I want to say, just over a month ago, I was asked to be a member of the board Uganda European Union business forum. The board has 3 business people who are Patrick Bitature, Barbra Mulwana and myself and it’s the first time this has happened. The formation of such a board…
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Consumer education on domestic tourism will make a very big difference in mindset change. I have decided to invest time in this campaign. I have a very strong feeling many of you are going to be national leaders in the near future. I want to contribute to your knowledge base through writing. Last week, I defined a domestic tourist as…
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A domestic tourist is one who leaves place A( A being Kampala for example) and goes to place B( place B being Gulu for example) and spends over 24 hours but less than a year. He shouldn’t have a permanent job there to qualify. That can be a Ugandan or an Indian or European with a base in kampala and…
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There has always been a concern amongst a certain section( not everybody of course) of the tourism fraternity, why do they pick on Amos always? To be honest, I also struggle with it and I wish more people came forward so we get a variety of opinions regarding tourism at a higher level. I actually tell people, look for other…
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The post of yesterday talking about National budgeting for reasons had a lot of attention and am still being engaged about it up to now. That post was shared in very many forums so am told, including some circles in the ministry of Finance which is good. That piece got me engaged with one of the top 10 guys in…
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