The Egyptian Journey Brokers Affiliation (ETAA) has held talks with a senior delegation from the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) to discover alternatives to broaden tourism cooperation, develop joint tourism programmes and promote funding between Egypt and Uganda.
Nader El-Beblawi, Chairperson of the ETAA, stated the assembly targeted on creating sensible areas of cooperation between the 2 international locations’ tourism and hospitality sectors, together with joint tourism programmes, funding alternatives and mechanisms to extend vacationer flows.
The discussions additionally examined the potential to develop built-in tourism packages focusing on long-haul markets, significantly the Far East, Australia, and North and South America.
The proposed programmes would mix the varied tourism choices of Egypt and Uganda into multi-destination itineraries.
El-Beblawi stated Egypt has a powerful curiosity in increasing cooperation with African international locations, significantly Nile Basin states, stressing the ETAA’s assist for efforts to deepen tourism ties with Uganda.
He highlighted Uganda’s various tourism sources, together with lakes, forests, wildlife, safari and journey tourism, in addition to its location alongside the Nile.
He additionally pointed to the comparatively brief journey time between Egypt and Uganda, which may assist facilitate tourism exchanges and create alternatives for nearer cooperation between firms in each markets.
“We’ve got a chance to construct a powerful partnership and provide the world a particular Egyptian-Ugandan tourism product,” El-Beblawi stated, emphasising the necessity to translate the discussions into concrete cooperation initiatives that profit each side.
As a part of the discussions, the 2 sides agreed to organise a sequence of joint workshops in Egypt and Uganda, with the assist of the ETAA and the Uganda Tourism Board.
Karim El-Menbawy, Chairperson of the ETAA Overseas Tourism Committee, stated the variety of tourism belongings in Egypt and Uganda creates important potential for creating distinctive tourism programmes and reaching new worldwide supply markets.
“The range of Egypt and Uganda’s tourism belongings creates alternatives to develop wealthy, world-class tourism programmes,” El-Menbawy stated, including that Egyptian tourism firms are ready to discover the proposed areas of cooperation.
The Ugandan delegation praised Egypt’s tourism expertise and expressed curiosity in benefiting from Egyptian experience throughout varied tourism and hospitality actions.
The delegation described Egypt as Africa’s main tourism vacation spot and highlighted the potential advantages of stronger cooperation between the 2 international locations, significantly in supporting the event of Uganda’s tourism sector.
The delegation additionally emphasised that the go to displays the longstanding relations between Egypt and Uganda on the political, governmental and people-to-people ranges, expressing hope that the discussions would result in efficient and sustainable tourism cooperation.
The Ugandan facet additional indicated that further delegations are anticipated to go to Egypt within the coming interval to discover additional alternatives for cooperation.
Nancy Abdel Hady, Uganda’s Goodwill Ambassador to Egypt and Government Director of the African Tourism Authority, stated the delegation included senior authorities officers and main Ugandan traders, together with main traders within the resort sector.
She stated the go to aimed to offer the Ugandan delegation with first-hand publicity to Egypt’s tourism expertise and permit its members to discover profitable tourism fashions that might provide alternatives for cooperation.
