Criteria for eligible applicants:

The organisation/ enterprise should:

• Be community tourism based
• Benefit the surrounding community
• Be environmentally friendly
• Have high tourism market potential
• Be registered at least with the sub-county

Benefits for Community Based Organizations:

• Supplemental marketing for your members’ services and products
• Training in different aspects of community based tourism such as planning, guiding, marketing etc.
• Direct linkage to other community based and private sector organizations
• Fundraising (where possible).
• Advocacy

Benefits of Becoming a UCOTA Member

Why Join?

• Be included in Uganda’s premier community based tourism marketing initiative
• Seize the opportunity to be a part of capacity building in community tourism enterprise development
• Gain local and international marketing and PR recognition to help boost sales through Uganda’s premier community based tourism marketing initiative – Pearls of Uganda
• Get recognized with a UCOTA/Pearls of Uganda plaque

Marketing

• Be featured on the Pearls of Uganda website – the consumer face of UCOTA)
• Be represented at industry events and exhibitions (e.g. Uganda Cultural Gala, ATLAS Conference, Karibu Trade Fair)
• Access a potential sales outlet for handcrafts
• Receive supplemental marketing representation for your services and products

Advocacy

•  Gain a voice in the tourism industry and at various levels of government

Capacity Building:

• Gain access to mentoring and support with training in:

And more!

Networking:

• Get opportunities to attend meetings and networking events for the chance to work with organizations with similar goals
• Gain access to UCOTA’s extensive database of CBOs private sector entities, and international organizations