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AINEMBABAZI FRANK 16/U/2999/PS 216008501 a Special Project CONTRIBUTION OF KITAGATA HOT SPRING TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN SHEEMA DISTRICT AINEMBABAZI FRANK 16/U/2999/PS 216008501 A Special Project Report Submitted to the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a Bachelors in Tourism of Makerere University JULY 2019 i ii DEDICATION “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” Nelson Mandela I am also highly indebted to my respondents from Kitagata hot spring for voluntarily giving me useful information for this study. I dedicate this piece of work to my beloved parents for the great work you have done towards my education. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to acknowledge with sincere gratitude my supervisor Dr. M. S. Mbogga for his great and parental guidance he has given me for the period I have been writing this special project report. He gave a great deal of his time to read and comment on the draft and the final work. The result of all this valuable feedback of information was that I made many corrections, alterations which I trust improved on my final work. You sacrificed time and offered positive criticisms for which I am very grateful. May the almighty God reward you richly. I thank God for giving me courage, wisdom, time and energy to complete this research report. Special gratitude to my brothers and sisters and who encouraged me to go beyond myself, brothers I treasure you. I would also like to thank my friends and those who directly and indirectly rendered me their assistance. Great thank goes to my respondents who provided me with data that has enabled me to present this report. I also acknowledge my fellow course mates for their corporation and helpful efforts rendered to each other during discussion periods and throughout the entire course. Lastly, I want to acknowledge my family for all their unconditioned love and support during the past three years. I cannot think of many that would come along so blindly and sacrifice so much without knowing what the journey would entail. May the Lord God reward you all. iv TABLE OF CONTENT DECLARATION........................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. APPROVAL .................................................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. DEDICATION............................................................................................................................................ iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................................................................... iv TABLE OF CONTENT .............................................................................................................................. v LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................................... vii LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................................. viii ACRONYMS .............................................................................................................................................. ix ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................................. x CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ........................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Problem Statement ................................................................................................................ 2 1.3 Objectives of the Study ......................................................................................................... 3 1.4 Research Questions ............................................................................................................... 3 This study addressed the following research question: ............................................................... 3 1.5 Significance of the study ....................................................................................................... 3 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW .......................................................................................... 5 2.1 Tourism in Uganda ................................................................................................................ 5 2.2 Local community participation in tourism ............................................................................ 5 2.3 The role tourism in community development ....................................................................... 7 2.4 History of geo thermal hot springs ........................................................................................ 9 2.5 The Ugandans tourism resources ........................................................................................ 11 CHAPTER THREE: MATERIALS AND METHODS ......................................................................... 12 3.1 Study Area ........................................................................................................................... 12 3.1.2 Relief and drainage of Kitagata community .............................................................................. 12 3.1.3 Population of Kitagata community ............................................................................................ 12 3.1.3 Socio-Economic activities in Kitagata community .................................................................... 12 3.2 Methods ............................................................................................................................... 13 3.2.1 Data Collection .......................................................................................................................... 13 3.2.2 Data Analysis and Presentation .................................................................................................. 13 CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS ................................................................................................................ 14 4.1 Contributions of Kitagata hot spring to the community ................................................. 14 4.1.1 The Importance of the hot springs to the Communities ...................................................... 14 v 4.2.1 Other potentials that can be developed around Kitagata hot spring to increases benefits to the community and its people ............................................................................................................. 17 4.3 Challenges facing the local community of Kitagata community ................................... 19 4.3.1 The Challenges faced by Communities around Kitagata hot springs ................................. 20 CHAPTER FIVE: DISCUSSION OF RESULTS .................................................................................. 23 5.1 Discussion of results for objective one .......................................................................... 23 5.1.1 The Contributions of Kitagata hot spring to the community .............................................. 23 5.2 Value-addition of Kitagata hot spring in Increasing Benefits to the Community .......... 24 5.3 Challenges facing the local community of Kitagata community ................................... 24 CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................................... 26 6.1 Conclusions ......................................................................................................................... 26 6.2 RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................................................... 26 REFERENCES .......................................................................................................................................... 28 APPENDIX I: RESEARCH QUESTIONAIRE .................................................................................... 31 APPENDIX II: FLEID PHOTOS ........................................................................................................... 35 vi LIST OF TABLES Table 1: The Importance of the hot springs to the Communities ................................................. 14 Table 2: The Type of Business that have been Developed around Kitagata Hot spring .............. 15 Table 3: Some of the Common Commodities sold by these Businesses ...................................... 16 Table 4: Other potentials that can be developed around Kitagata hot spring to increases benefits to the community and its people ................................................................................................... 17 Table 5: Some of the Activities carried out in the Hot spring by the Community ....................... 18 Table 6: Challenges faced by communities around Kitagata hot springs ..................................... 20 Table 7: The Challenges faced by the Districts in the Development of KHS .............................. 21 vii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: The kings hot spring at kitagata hot spring ................................................................... 35 Figure 2 :The kigatata daily market .............................................................................................. 35 Figure 3 :people fetching hot water
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