Category: In Global Media
Press coverage of the Gorilla Highlands region shared by Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo.
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ChatGPT Gets Africa (Somehow)
As Tour Business Coaching Program participants, we were encouraged to subscribe to ChatGPT 4. Visual art generation is one of its advances, and it has proved hilarious to explore what it knows about Africa. When asked to draw a map of the Gorilla Highlands region, it emphasised Lake Bunyonyi, and that was intriguing. Requested to…
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They Come To See Animals, They Leave Thinking About African Life
(We thought our audience could find it interesting, so we translated the article by Aljaž Vrabec published on 30 November 2022 in Slovenia’s Delo newspaper) Nature preservation, respectful treatment of local people and tourism do not always go hand in hand. Thankfully, there do exist travellers and tour providers who care. One of them is…
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We Are in Columbus Travel, Again
In the latest edition of Columbus Travel, a Dutch travel magazine, we get a beautiful photo spread promoting our way of doing ecotourism. The story is focused on Rwanda, while four years ago we were featured in the same magazine with Ugandan locations and activities. The text goes like this, according to Google Translate: Gorillas…
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We Are In the Washington Post
We interrupt our regular programming because having an article about us published in the Washington Post is a big deal. It had taken many years to make something like this happen! Henry Wismayer, the article author, has been to our region several times. He even met Marcus Westberg here, our photographer who would become his…
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BBC about Bunyonyi: Successes, Failure & Dilemma
The BBC World Service broadcast two catchy Lake Bunyonyi stories this month. The first one was about canoeing to school, the second one about Punishment Island. As the Gorilla Highlands team played a supporting role, let us assess what we have achieved… The journalist, Patience Atuhaire, initially just wanted to talk about the “school bus” dugouts.…
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Gorilla Highlands in a Dutch Travel Magazine
The Gorilla Highlands initiative is about promoting southwestern Uganda and northwestern Rwanda globally, and we have started 2017 well. Columbus Travel, the second biggest travel magazine in the Netherlands with 45,000 readers, has published a special edition called Travel Bucketlist 2017 with the Gorilla Highlands in it. They asked Dutch celebrities to share their travel tips, and…
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Lufthansa’s “Neighbor Gorilla”, Corrected
The Lufthansa magazine interview we mentioned in June has been translated into English for their website. It might be useful to ad some corrections and clarifications: – permits for gorilla tracking in Uganda cost USD 600 (or USD 450 in November and April/May)– it is very much possible to get an internal flight to and airstrip…
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Gorilla Highlands in Germany
Lufthansa, Europe’s biggest airline, produces a monthly magazine for over 300,000 of its customers. In the June 2016 edition of Lufthansa Exclusive our region gets 9 pages, a consequence of the Gorilla Highlands Press Trip that brought Jiro Ose here last November. If you read German or simply want to see some great photography, download…
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Gorilla Highlands Cooking in Slovenia
Our rolex recipe got published in Slovenske novice, the biggest Slovenian daily, a fortnight ago. This newspaper reaches over 300,000 people on an average day, so having a full page devoted to our speciality and the Gorilla Highlands project leader is a not a small deal. Every time we put the two special words “Gorilla” and “Highlands”…