The 11th investor of the year awards in Uganda will be held on November 25 at Speke Resort and country lodge Munyonyo, Kampala.
The awards will be presided over by President Yoweri Museveni to show the Government’s commitment towards improving the investment climate and offering more incentives to investors.

The awards organised by Uganda Investment Authority’s (UIA) are to cover sectors of capital investments, job creation, corporate social responsibility and introduction of new technologies and both foreign and local companies are competing for the awards.

The INOY is also one way of encouraging investors to become more efficient and innovative in their business,and to award investors who have excelled in business, networking and technology.

By Kisibo Jackie
Jackie@hotelsinuganda.com
Uganda hotel news

The Ramzar convention, a long global summit meeting on wetlands at Speke Resort and Country Lodge Munyonyo a Ugandan lodge continues, despite the public reactions that the conference should not be allowed at the resort because “it is in a wetland.”

More than 1,000 representatives from about 146 countries gathered for the 9th meeting of the contracting parties to the Ramsar conference that will end on November 15, despite enviromentalists threats to strike,inorder to stop the conference from taking place in an unfriendly environment.

Individuals and institutions recieved awards for outstanding contribution towards wetlands conservation.
Iranian Nezami Baloochi scooped the wetlands management of the year,prof Shuming Cai won the science award,and ms Reiko recieved the education award.

The conference was adopted in 1971 with an aim of conserving wetlands and water resourses around the world.

By Kisibo Jackie
Uganda hotel news

City hotels, which are going to accommodate over 16,000 members of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) delegates, are being vetted by Security agencies. This is a precautionary measure aimed at averting any possible case of ‘sabotage’ or poisoning by the party opponents

This will be during a delegate’s conference to be held at the Mandela National Stadium in Namboole.

The source said the Internal Security Organization (ISO) and the Police are behind the vetting, with Katikamu North MP James Kinobe the party’s security chief. Mr. Ofwono Opondo, the NRM chairperson for Publicity confirmed the vetting “Yes, the hotels we shall use should be vetted for the safety of our delegates. What if they are poisoned?” Opondo asked.

President Yoweri Museveni has directed that all the delegates to the conference should travel in comprehensively insured passenger service vehicles and in buses with speed governors, inorder to minimise road accidents. Opondo said the President also wants the delegates to travel in groups other than one by one for security reasons

Works, Transport and Communications Minister John Nasasira is the NRM’s party transport chairperson.

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Uganda hotel news

The East African Community has finished designing new hotel standards.
This was revealed while opening a workshop in Hotel Africana, one of uganda’s hotels,

The secretary general Amanya Mushega said “the new standards where awaiting printing and distribution.

“This is in order to enhance hotel standards, growth, facilities and comfort in Ugandan hotels, in order to provide a wide range of facilities and to enhance tourism in Uganda.”said the manager Africa travel Emporium.

By Kisibo Jackie
Uganda hotel news

A thirty-year lease concession agreement between Tourism Promotion services (a subsidiary of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development) and the Government of Uganda to invest US$18 million investment was made.

The investment is aimed at the extensive refurbishment and upgrading of the former Nile Hotel which will re-open in September 2005 as the Kampala Serena hotel.
The Kampala Serena Hotel will have refurbished rooms, which have increased from 85 to 146, two new theme restaurants, a new bar, a new health club and sports facilities as well as upgraded conference and banqueting facilities. Indigenous cultural elements. likeUganda’s flora, fauna, unique topographic features and history will be the incentive for design themes for the new hotel.

Like other Serena properties around the world, the Kampala Serena will resonate and embody local artisanal traditions. Serena Hotels operate 22 hotels, resorts and safari lodges in Kenya, Tanzania (including Zanzibar), Mozambique, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan

Prince Amyn Aga Khan, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) asserted the anticipation that “this initiative will promote tourism development throughout Uganda and act as a stimulus to other investors in this sector.”He also said that when the new hotel reopens, it will have a new notion of comfort, design and style, will create employment opportunities, and will also urge tourism investments.

Uganda’s Minister of State for Privatization Prof. Peter Kasenene, said that “the industry needs the onset from actors like Serena who have a further vision for the sector, and as such, the finalization of the settlement does achieve our broader objective of strengthening the tourism industry.”

The new hotel is expected to open after 12 months after its refurbishment to unveil the new Kampala Serena hotel.

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