Kampala: Tourists visiting Kenya,
Rwanda and Uganda will now find it easier and cheaper to travel across
the three countries with the official launch of the single tourist visa
Thursday.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, and his Rwandan and Kenyan
counterparts Paul Kagame and Uhuru Kenyatta, who arrived here for the
4th Northern Corridor Integration Projects Summit to speed up regional
integration, handed dummy visas to three tourists, marking the official
introduction of the single tourist visa, reported Xinhua.
The multiple-entry visa, which will be valid for 90 days, will cost
$100. Tourists can apply at any immigration offices of Uganda, Kenya and
Rwanda or online. Burundi and Tanzania are yet to come on board.
The visa is expected to reduce the costs of touring across the three countries in a bid to boost the number of tourists.
At the one-day summit, leaders from Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, South
Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda also discussed key projects such as railway
construction, oil refinery development and energy generation.
The last summit was held last October in the Rwandan capital Kigali,
where the Single Customs Territory was launched and entered into force
Jan 1, 2014.
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