Fort Portal has tourism data — but until now, it has never been connected. Hotels collect guest registers. Tour operators log bookings. Attraction sites count visitors at the gate. Yet none of this information reaches the tourism officer or informs how the city plans, invests, or markets itself.
In February and April 2026, we convened two stakeholder workshops to co-design an Integrated City Tourism Data Hub — not a new database built from scratch, but a coordination mechanism that brings together data already being collected across the sector. The hub is designed to give city authorities, the private sector, and development partners a shared, reliable picture of how tourism in Fort Portal is actually performing.
The workshops brought together city officials, hotel operators, tour operators, attraction managers, and national Ministry of Tourism representatives. Participants agreed on priority datasets, governance principles, and a clear alignment with national frameworks, including the Tourism Information Management System. The ambition is straightforward: a city that can speak about its tourism economy with confidence, make decisions based on evidence, and attract investment on the strength of what the data shows.
Fort Portal is the pilot. The model being built here is designed to scale