User:Atyang344/sandbox/Amos Wekesa

Amos Wekesa is a Ugandan businessman, entrepreneur, and corporate executive, who is the founder, proprietor, and managing director of Great Lakes Safaris Limited, a tour operating company, in the African Great Lakes region.

Quotes

 * "Stay-cation is when you stay home for a vacation. People are doing more activities a short driving distance from where they live"
 * Quoted in FEATURE-World economic storm hits Uganda safari tourism, Article by Hereward Holland,7 May 2009, Reuters
 * Amos Wekesa's interview response on tourism in Uganda.


 * "If you are born next to a national park, you take it for granted but we are seeing the numbers of local people increase,". "Many countries are trying to increase domestic tourism to cover up for the numbers they are going to lose because of the credit crunch."
 * Quoted in FEATURE-World economic storm hits Uganda safari tourism, Article by Hereward Holland,7 May 2009, Reuters
 * Amos Wekesa's response to interview question by Reuters.
 * "If we don't have the tourists coming into the country and seeing the primates that we have within the forest, then people will think about chopping down the forest for charcoal."
 * Quoted in FEATURE-World economic storm hits Uganda safari tourism. Article by Hereward Holland,7 May 2009, Reuters
 * Amos Wekesa being interviewed by Reuters on conservation.
 *  Currently, the biggest marketing budgeting is taken up marketing Uganda outside Africa yet we have a huge local and regional market that is yet untapped. Marketing initiatives within the region would cost a lot less than in Europe and America so considerable focus is required"
 * Quoted in Lessons Uganda can learn from neighbors. Article by Monitor,06 May 2016He