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This insanely beautiful Crater Safari Lodge, lies on the shores of the Nyinabulitwa Crater Lake, just a few minutes away from the lush green tropical rain forest that is Kibale Forest National Park. Lake Nyinabulitwa is one of the 52 crater lakes located in Kabarole District. Rubirizi District (about 100km away) in south western Uganda is the second place, after Kabarole that has several crater lakes with 32 crater lakes.
Crater Safari Lodge is owned and run by Christine Mwinike, a Ugandan. 75% of the hotels in Uganda are owned by domestic private players.
Hotel sector employment grew by 10.3% from 605,500 jobs in 2017 to 667,600 jobs in 2018, much faster than overall economic growth, which stood at 5% in 2018. Of specific significance is the fact that 77% of the sector jobs go to the youth (18 – 30yrs) and 58% of sector employees are women.
Thanks to aggressive marketing of Uganda as a tourism destination, restoration of peace and security, investment in energy and tourism infrastructure as well incentives to the sector, sector profitability/sustainability has improved. Hotel room and bed occupancy rates in Uganda, reached 51 percent and 44 percent respectively in 2018 (for any hotel to break even, it must operate at 40% occupancy according to Uganda Hotel Owners Association.)
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