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.