HOGMAU Launches Five Year Strategic Plan

By: Kyeyune Ali

The hotel general managers association of Uganda (HOGMAU) has launched a five year strategic plan at Noble View hotel in ntinda on weekend.

In this strategic plan, they are aiming at improving the hotel sector in Uganda and among the key points noted includes; acquiring more skills to the general managers and the staff, recruiting professionals in the sector to avoid recruiting relatives and friends who are unskilled and also the association is more keen at mind change.

“The local managers can’t manage five star hotels, so many Ugandans denied such opportunities due to lack of knowledge and skills and later foreigners took the jobs.” They outlined 

This sector comprises of all tourists sites that offer accommodations, restaurants and bar facilities such as hotels and lodges therefore in 2020/2021 statistics shows that there are over 6291 hotels in the country contributed about 14 percent of the total business. 

In this regard, the association has come up together with the government to increase high quality service delivery towards tourists both local and international. 

The chairperson hotel general managers association of Uganda madam Apio Molly said “The main objective of this association is to bring togetherness and to eliminate selfishness to the hotel owners not to share skills to their managers and the entire staffs .”

“We call upon other hotel managers to come and join the association because the door is open to everyone and the purpose of such workshops is to share knowledge and skills as far as our business is concerned” She added.

Chairperson of HOGMAU Madam Apio Molly also appealed to all stake holders that there’s a need for a collective effort from well wishers for this mighty dreams of this association to be achieved and let’s us be united with one another and contribute whatever we have in all aspects in order to achieve the goals of hotel general managers association of Uganda (HOGMAU). 

Julius Bagenda, general manager Fort Breeze hotel in fort portal said that ” as the association we have gained skills through constant workshops and we have improved our hospitality and mind change through exchange of ideas in our area and I think with time we shall gain a lot from this association .”