MOU between UWA and AUTO – Uganda tour operator.

Under a memorandum of agreement with AUTO (Association of Uganda Tour Operators), Uganda Wildlife Authority would provide one gorilla permit to each thirty gorilla permits purchased by members of Association of Uganda Tour Operators.

One gorilla permit costs USD700.00, and this money will then assist tour operators under their umbrella organisation to promote Uganda as a gorilla trekking destination both locally and abroad.

This MOU between UWA and AUTO marks a great move wherein Tour Operators and Uganda Tourism Board will focus on their main responsibility of marketing and promoting Uganda both domestically and internationally while Uganda Wildlife Authority will concentrate on its principal mission of protecting wildlife for generations.

MOU between for UWA and AUTO

This memorandum of understanding went into effect on September 1, 2015. Every three months, this commission of one gorilla permit per person will be issued to delegates of the Association of Uganda Tour Operators who will subsequently sell them to their members at a designated price.

Although MOU between UWA and AUTO seems encouraging, individual tour operators are still wondering how this one gorilla permit among thirty purchased with Uganda Wildlife Authority would be marketed.

One wonders whatever standards would be used to guarantee that every tour operator gains anything. AUTO will decide who should profit and who should not depending on some firms buying more than thirty gorilla permits each month and others not buying any at all.

This MOU between UWA and AUTO, however, is viewed as another encouraging step to mend the relationship between the two that had gone sour when Uganda Wildlife Authority sought to make gorilla permits available to everyone for viewing and booking online.

Uganda Tour Operators angrily objected to this and it was halted. Negotiations began when new management arrived at AUTO, and the results are advantages like these.