The relationship between tourism and infrastructural development in Nkringo tourism Zone Kisoro District Southwestern Uganda
Abstract
Tourism-Infrastructure forms a back bone of tourism and facilitates in connecting or supporting
tourism zones hence enabling the performance of particular functions possible. A combination of
infrastructure together with the hospitality received in the destination area gives a tourist a
permanent mental image that makes a tourist appreciate the tourism zone during his period of
travel or stay at the destination. Tourism is defined as an act of travelling from one place to
another for leisure, curiosity, study purposes or particular functions that may not involve
remuneration of any activity in the place visited. Therefore for a tourist to move from one place
to another there is need for infrastructure in form of transport routes, accommodation, and
Information Communication and Technology (ICT). Tourism Infrastructure are basic
resources that are needed to support, sustain or supplement the existing tourism system as a set
of various activities and functions to be carried out easily, conveniently and harmoniously.
Infrastructure is needed for areas’ development and they include among others roads, schools,
and water and health units to mention but a few. Tourism planning refers to the creation or
formulation of goals, ideas decisions and practices that are essential to make tourism sustainable
in the long run supplying tourism needs of the present generation as well as putting into
consideration of preservation purposes for the benefit of future generation in tourism activities.
Developments in any area do not happen by magic but are shaped by people’s ideas and
decisions whether positive or negative. Tourism infrastructural planning is an essential scheme
that is relevant to smart growth of any urban and regional tourism zone which improves the
image of the place and that of surrounding environment.