Bya Mugula Dan
Uganda eyolekedde okukola ssente emu ku mpaka z’ebyentambula ezisinga obunene mu Asia,[ Outbound] Travel Market OTM 2025, egenda kubeerawo okuva nga January 30 okutuuka nga February 2, 2025, mu JIO World Convention Center e Mumbai mu Buyindi .
Kino kyakubeera Uganda Pavilion esoose ku mukolo guno, ogutegekeddwa okutumbula obusobozi bw’eggwanga obw’obulambuzi okutuuka ku katale ka Buyindi akakula.
Uganda okwetaba mu mpaka za OTM 2025, ezitegekebwa akakiiko ka Uganda High Commission mu New Delhi ne Uganda Airlines, kigenda kubeeramu ekibinja ky’abakulu abakwatibwako mu by’obulambuzi. Ekibinja kino kuliko abakiise okuva mu kkampuni y’ennyonyi eya Uganda Airlines, minisitule y’ebyobulambuzi, ekitongole ekivunaanyizibwa ku bisolo by’omu nsiko ekya Uganda Wildlife Authority, Uganda Tourism Board, n’abakola ku by’obulambuzi abawerako. Nga bali wamu, baluubirira okutumbula ekifaananyi kya Uganda ng’ekifo eky’oku ntikko eri abatambuze ne bamusigansimbi okuva mu Buyindi ne South Asia.
Akatale k’ebyentambula mu Buyindi ke kamu ku kasinga okukula amangu mu nsi yonna, nga buli mwaka obukadde n’obukadde bw’abatambuze Abayindi boolekera ebweru w’eggwanga.
Okusinziira ku mubaka wa Buyindi, omwaka 2025 we gunaatuukira, Buyindi esuubirwa okuba n’abantu obukadde 13 n’obukadde 900 abagenda okuwummulirako n’abagenda ebweru obukadde 19.4. Uganda eno elaba ng’omukisa omukulu okukozesa okwagala okweyongera mu ntambula z’ensi yonna naddala ng’ennyonyi ezigenda obutereevu wakati wa Entebbe ne Mumbai, ezaatongozebwa mu October wa 2023 kkampuni ya Uganda Airlines, zanguyiza entambula wakati w’amawanga gombi.
Bwabadde ayogerera mu Uganda Media Center ku Lwokubiri, omubaka wa Buyindi mu uganda Singh Rawat yategeezezza nti OTM 2025 egenda kubaamu aboolesi abasoba mu 1,600 okuva mu mawanga 60+, era nga pavilion ya Uganda eyolekedde okulaga eby’obulambuzi eby’enjawulo mu ggwanga lino, omuli safaali z’ebisolo by’omu nsiko, okulondoola ebisolo ebiyitibwa primate (omuli gorilla ne… okulondoola ensolo za chimpanzee), okulaba ebinyonyi, n’okulambula eby’obuwangwa. Omukolo guno era gugenda kubaamu emikisa gy’okukolagana n’abaguzi b’ensi yonna n’abakugu mu by’entambula.
Uganda okwetaba mu OTM kikwatagana n’okwolesebwa kwa gavumenti okugazi okw’okutumbula eby’obulambuzi ng’omu ku nteekateeka yaayo ey’okukulaakulanya eby’obulambuzi emirundi 10, ng’egenderera okutuuka ku GDP ya doola obuwumbi 500 omwaka 2040 we gunaatuukira bamusigansimbi.
Ebigendererwa ebikulu ebya Uganda ku OTM mulimu okumanyisa abantu ku ggwanga lino ng’ekifo ekisinga obulambuzi mu Afrika, okutumbula oluguudo lwa Uganda Airlines obutereevu okugenda e Mumbai, n’okutumbula enkolagana ne kkampuni z’ebyobulambuzi mu nsi yonna. Uganda era etunuulidde okukola ddiiru z’ebyobulambuzi ezibalirirwamu obuwumbi bwa silingi obusoba mu 13 n’okusikiriza emikutu gy’amawulire egy’amaanyi.
Ekibinja kya Uganda kigenda kussa essira ku kutondawo enkolagana ey’amaanyi n’enkolagana n’abakulira eby’obulambuzi n’emikutu gy’amawulire egy’oku ntikko, okukakasa nti Uganda eri mu kifo ng’ekifo ekikulembedde mu by’obulambuzi eby’okwesanyusaamu n’eby’obusuubuzi.
Omukolo guno gusuubirwa okuwa omusingi omunywevu ogw’okukulaakulana mu biseera eby’omu maaso mu by’obulambuzi mu Uganda, nga kino kigenda kulaga essuula empya mu nkolagana y’eggwanga lino mu by’obulambuzi n’ebyobusuubuzi ne Buyindi.