11/10/2022
Aviation
After I was done with my 5 day mission yesterday, I was invited by kenyan Pilot friends to restricted club at Wilson Airport for nyama choma!
I got to meet very many new contacts of movers and shakers in that space. Amazing and challenging conversations!
A developed aviation industry can be an indicator of a country's grow levels and that's why when you want to know a country is performing well or bad.
Good performing countries must be involved in international business and the 2 major indicators are arrivals at their airports
The second indicator is the number of international chain of hotels, kenya is now closing in on 88 chains and we are closing in on 5.
Anyways, Wilson airport also in Nairobi city is as busy as Jomo Kenyatta airport and JKIA alone is about 5 times busier than Entebbe
Our potential as Uganda is way up there but we have to more than triple our speed in growth.
When I said masai mara got 300k tourists in 2019 and all our 22 protected areas combined got less 340k in the same year, Aviation played a role.
Masai mara alone has over 10 airstrips servicing it for tourism purposes and yet its slightly larger than kidepo national park and more thrice smaller Murchison falls national park!
Masai mara is about 1,510sq kms and murchison conversation area is about 5k sq kms
Out of our 22 national parks and game reserves combined, only 4 protected areas have airtrips inside them.
Those 4 are Queen Elizabeth, semuliki game reserve, murchison and kidepo
Less than 10 airstrips directly service all our 22 national parks and game reserves combined.
Our major target now is to market Uganda across the globe and what that will do is create opportunities and investment will automatically follow
When people see opportunities, they will do anything to invest and that's how it works.
