WORLD TOURISM DAY (WTD) 2004

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- WORLD TOURISM DAY CELEBRATIONS-BUKOBA
- BEANS AND MAIZE PLANTING SEASON –KAGERA
- TOURISTS DATA – GERMANS No.1 ,SWITZERLAND No2
- KIROYERA TOURS- MCK ATTENDED SEMINAR IN ARUSHA
- LAKE VICTORIA CONSERVATION WORKSHOP
- TIP OF THE MONTH- CHICKENS LOW PRICE IN KAGERA
- BUSINESS ADVISOR (VSO)JOIN KIROYERA TOURS

BUKOBA CELEBRATES WORLD TOURISM DAY (WTD) 2004
The year 2004 theme was Tourism & Sports two living forces for mutual understanding culture and development of the society. Internationally, World Tourism Day Celebrations started 25 years ago. Bukoba has celebrated WTD consecutively for the last 3 years.

Kiroyera tours organized Football competitions in corroboration with Tanzania Sports Promotion and Training Center (TSPTC) together with Walkgard Hotel and Tours at Bukoba’s Kaitaba Stadium. Six teams namely Kagera Sugar, Police F.C. Magereza F.C, Balimi F.C, Victoria Women’s F.C and BTC Women F.C participated in the festival from 24th to 27th Sept, 2004.

Each match had a guest of honor who addressed the participants on the importance of Sports and Tourism in economic development of our society.

The Kagera sugar FC won the First Prize by acquiring the WTD Cup, and a Certificate, and other teams got a trophy with certificate of participation.

Attendants including Guests of Honor were the Provincial Regional Administrative Secretary, Regional Police Commander, Regional Prisons Officer, Manager CRDB Bank, Manager Kagera Sugar Factory and people around Bukoba and nearby districts. Over the four days people poured into Kaitaba Stadium to watch the competitions toward the World Tourism day 27th September 2004.

BEANS AND MAIZE PLANTING SEASON –KAGERA
Farmers in Kagera region have started planting Beans and Maize (subsistence crops) for this season and are expecting harvesting in December before X mass and New year. The short rains have started farmers are busy with planting activities all over Kagera region. Now Bukoba is looking more green. However, there is a heat wave going through and farmers may loose this season’s crop!


TOURISTS DATA – GERMANS No.1 ,SWITZERLAND No2
This tourist season July to September, 50 tourists from Germany visited attractions in Kagera Region leading in numbers via Kiroyera Tours, the second tourists are from Switzerland and the third are from Britain.

KIROYERA TOURS- MCK ATTENDED WTO SEMINAR IN ARUSHA
The Managing Director of Kiroyera Tours Mrs. Mary Kalikawe attended the World Tourism Organization Regional workshop on Sustainable Tourism Development and Poverty alleviation in Arusha for three days. The Seminar had participants from 13 Anglophone countries. Mary attended the seminar in her capacity as one member of the Tanzania Tourist Board.

LAKE VICTORIA CONSERVATION WORKSHOP
Assistant Tours management Officer Mr. William Oswald attended the One day Workshop in ELCT Bukoba Hotel Hall which was organized by KADETFU regarding the conservation of the Lake Victoria (the Second Largest Lake). The Regional Commissioner Honorable T. Kiwelu did the official launching of the workshop. Around 40 people and government officials from Bukoba and Muleba attended the workshop. We had also resource persons from Uganda and Kenya because the lake Victoria is shared by all three countries.

TIP OF THE MONTH- CHICKENS LOW PRICE IN KAGERA
Chickens are plenty available in Kagera especially in Bukoba where farmers come and sell their chicken because of seasonal planting of Maize and Beans. At this period you get an organically bred chicken at a cost of a dollar.

BUSINESS ADVISOR JOINS KIROYERA TOURS
Mr. Bart Jean Pierre Lacroix an experienced business advisor from the Netherlands has joined Kiroyera Tours from 3 October 2004. He is now in Morogoro taking his Kiswahili training. A big welcome to Bart!