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.
5th October 2022 (Kaabong District) – Kara-Tunga Arts & Tours and partner USAID/RTI International officially launched the first two Eco Camps in Kidepo Landscape on Wednesday 5th October 2022.
Things to do in Abim – Abim is a unique geographical location with rugged mountains and lush green vegetation. The people of Abim do not identify themselves with their Karimojong or Lango neighbours, they find themselves unique and go by the name of Ethur.
Karamoja Guides for Uganda Tour Guide Training Assessors – Two years ago we founded the Karamoja Tourism Academy and relied heavily on people from other regions to assess our students. Today we’re celebrating the graduation of our very own Karamoja Guides for Tour Guide Training Assessors.
We’re extremely proud of our dear friend Terrill B. Schrock gave many years of his life to preserver he ancestral language of one of Uganda’s most remote communities by developing an Ik-English dictionary.
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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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Things to do in Abim – Myth of the Mountain
Things to do in Abim – Abim is a unique geographical location with rugged mountains and lush green vegetation. The people of Abim do not identify themselves with their Karimojong or Lango neighbours, they find themselves unique and go by the name of Ethur.
Karamoja Guides for Uganda Tour Guide Training Assessors
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Ik Dictionary by Terrill Schrock
We’re extremely proud of our dear friend Terrill B. Schrock gave many years of his life to preserver he ancestral language of one of Uganda’s most remote communities by developing an Ik-English dictionary.