Developed to stimulate growth in the tourism sector the national report Uganda National Tourism Sector Development Plan (TDSP) focuses on unlocking the binding constraints in five priority areas namely; marketing and promotion, human resource development, product development, natural and cultural resource conservation, and tourism management and regulation. These priorities emerged out of wide national consultations and are also aligned with the National Development Plan II (NDP II) priorities.
This report is built around the aspirations of NDP II and is consistent with the tourism master plan (2014/15-2024/25). It includes specific interventions and budgeted projects that lie on the critical path of tourism development over the period 2015/16-2019/20. The vision of the tourism sector is to achieve sustainable tourism, wildlife and cultural heritage contributing to the transformation of the Ugandan society from a peasant to a modern and prosperous one. The strategic objective revolves around the aforementioned priority areas and the identified priority projects to be implemented under this plan have been regionalized in order to equitably spread the development of the sector nationally. The implementation of this sector development plan will be through the existing institutional structures and the overall responsibility for its successful implementation rests with the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife, and Antiquities which provides oversight supervision, policy development and coordination of the sector.