Tulavo, a local hotel booking platform for affordable hotels in Uganda has tipped local hotel owners in Uganda to work with local travel tech companies in order to develop tourism in Uganda.
Addressing the media in Mukono on Tuesday, Stephen Okhutu the CEO of Tulavo advised hotel owners in Uganda to embrace technology by listing their hotels on Tulavo.
“We are in business to promote tourism in Uganda. As Tulavo, we want to help all hotel owners in Uganda to gain visibility on the global market by creating a competitive environment for them” Okhutu revealed.
Tulavo is a hotel booking platform which was founded in 2019 with an objective of helping local hotels in Uganda to gain market visibility in order to compete with bigger hotel brands. The platform gives free marketing and hotel automation solutions to Ugandan hotels whose room rate are below $100 per night. The company got an ISO 9001:2015 certification last year as one of its comitment to promote quality services in Uganda’s tourism sector.
The company is one of the 6 travel tech companies selected by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation and empact in 2020 to promote local tourism in the 20 countries that makes the UN East African region.
Uganda Hotel Owners’ Association – UHOA plays a critical role in bringing together travel accommodation players within the travel and tourism industry in Uganda. The industry however has a big opportunity to grow if key stakeholders in Uganda’s tourism industry like Tulavo and UHOA work together.
Although the Uganda Hotel owners’ Association aims at the development of the travel accommodation through capacity building and policy advocacy, there is a big need to grow through partnerships with local tech companies in the tourism industry. This will help in solving local challenges that are affecting the growth of tourism in Uganda.
John Sendagire Kasirye, the proprietor of Deira Hotel in Mukono is one of the hotel owners who are benefitting from the Tulavo services. He told journalists in Mukono that for tourism in Uganda to thrive, Ugandan tourism service providers must create direct linkages aimed at the promotion of the industry.
“The challenge we have is the media in Uganda, the image of Uganda abroad is destroyed by reckless media practitioners who are following the agenda of opposition politicians. These people are holding Ugandans as collateral damage because they want to turn Ugandans against the government”, Sendagire noted. He added that as a Ugandan entrepreneur he is following with keen interest the politics of Uganda saying that most of the players have selfish interests at the cost of Ugandans.
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