Via Via Tourism Academy (Belgium) sees tourism as an engine for the regenerative development of a region. Using a holistic approach, residents, entrepreneurs, government and visitors together create a flourishing community that respects the place with its people, culture and nature. Tourism thus creates a collaborative advantage instead of a competitive one. Regional regeneration creates solutions adapted to the unique bio-cultural uniqueness of the place, ensuring greater biodiversity and climate resilience.
During five days ViaVia Tourism Academy guided the stakeholders on a journey towards regenerative tourism in the Karamoja region.
Regenerative Tourism
Regenerative tourism focuses on the place and the local community. Tourism is rooted in the local communities. In which residents, entrepreneurs and visitors create a flourishing community together.
Tourism thus provides a collaborative advantage instead of a competitive one.
Regional regeneration creates solutions adapted to the unique bio-cultural identity of a place and thus ensures greater biodiversity and climate resilience.
This is a pilot project in which we create a global impact from a glocal (global + local) approach, which will also be applied in other regions of Uganda in a next step.
Uganda’s northeast Karamojaland has kept many secrets due Its inaccessibility, only recently, researchers and scholars have started to explore these forgotten corners of the country. Kara-Tunga hosted two Kenya-based researchers for 10 days Trekking of Uganda’s Mount Kadam, in search for the unknown but with the gut feeling of finding something special to come back …
It is a legal requirement that all employees undergo basic fire safety training at induction and periodically thereafter, expected annually in most workplaces. The training must be carried out by a competent person with suitable and sufficient skills and knowledge of fire safety.
Drive through Karamoja and Fly back from Kidepo Valley National Park. Enjoy the best of both worlds by flying over Uganda’s most untouched region and driving back through the Savannah grasslands peppered with tall jagged peaks.
The Adventure Tourism Uganda training modules can be used by anyone with an interest in training others in the skills needed for a career in adventure tourism.
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Karamoja develops Uganda’s first Travel Manifesto and Pledge
Sustainable tourism is no longer enough. The people of Karamoja have embraced regenerative tourism to create a better world through travel.
Since tourism in Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region is still in its infancy, it is incredibly important to raise awareness and to set expectations and guidelines now.
Karamoja is the first place in East Africa where the host community wrote a Travel Manifesto and ask visitors to take a Tourist Pledge.
Read the Karamoja Travel Manifesto and Tourist Pledge
Via Via Tourism Academy, guiding the process
Via Via Tourism Academy (Belgium) sees tourism as an engine for the regenerative development of a region. Using a holistic approach, residents, entrepreneurs, government and visitors together create a flourishing community that respects the place with its people, culture and nature. Tourism thus creates a collaborative advantage instead of a competitive one. Regional regeneration creates solutions adapted to the unique bio-cultural uniqueness of the place, ensuring greater biodiversity and climate resilience.
During five days ViaVia Tourism Academy guided the stakeholders on a journey towards regenerative tourism in the Karamoja region.
Regenerative Tourism
Regenerative tourism focuses on the place and the local community. Tourism is rooted in the local communities. In which residents, entrepreneurs and visitors create a flourishing community together.
Tourism thus provides a collaborative advantage instead of a competitive one.
Regional regeneration creates solutions adapted to the unique bio-cultural identity of a place and thus ensures greater biodiversity and climate resilience.
This is a pilot project in which we create a global impact from a glocal (global + local) approach, which will also be applied in other regions of Uganda in a next step.
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