Virtual Tours Bring Tourists To Rwanda Amid COVID-19
By Our Reporter
A young Rwadan is offering tourists the chance
to visit his country via virtual tourism amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Patrick
Karangwa, the founder of Kigali 360, a company that creates virtual tours of
some of Rwanda's most impressive sights, has pumped life into Rwanda’s tourism
sector by using technology.
"I
realised that Rwanda as a country and in general also Africa were
under-represented on Google Maps, on digital maps; this is where the idea came
from. I realised that this technology we could do it our self and it was
affordable," Karangwa said.
Since the
outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, the tourism industry has collapsed across
all African countries.
Most African
tourism organizations have come up with the concept of providing the
contine...
