The Association of Uganda Tour Operators chief executive, Gloria Tumwesigye, spoke with Bamuturaki Musinguzi on the impact of the coronavirus on Uganda's travel industry.

Uganda earns over $1.6 billion from tourism annually, although we are yet to compute final figures of losses from the Covid-19 in Uganda and Africa in general.

The Association of Uganda Tour Operators undertook a study to assess impact on tour operators as well as linkages with other strategic actors and recommend interventions through three stages to avoid total collapse.

This is why there has been discussions around the resilience of domestic tourism and how the recovery would be led by business and domestic travel, as has been observed in China and as have other Asian countries that are ahead of us in recovery.

Whereas recovery is expected, tour companies in Uganda are experiencing the full economic brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic.