Sports tourism refers to travel which involves either observing or participating in a sporting event while staying apart from the tourists’ usual environment. Sport tourism is a fast-growing sector of the global travel industry and equates to $7.68 billion.
Leisure-based travel that takes individuals temporarily outside of their home communities to participate in physical activities (active sport tourism), to watch physical activities (event sport tourism), or to visit attractions associated with physical activities (nostalgia sport tourism)
Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.
Being the only Uganda safari destination where experiential speed boating, adventurous bungee jumping, canoeing, whitewater rafting, as well as quad biking and horse riding is done, Jinja really deserves the to be promoted as Uganda’s sporting destination where visitors on Uganda safari tours can have adventurous. 

Each of the three countries produced its share of successful drivers. Uganda’s’ Shekkar Mehta won the Safari 5 times, Satwant Singh was 8 times African Champion and Charles Muhangi was African Champion in 1999. The five-times Safari Rally winner, Shekhar Mehta (RIP), drove his first rally car on a circuit in Lugazi, near the Source of the Nile, where his family still owns large sugar and tea estates. He 
went on to become a World class driver and later became a Vice President of the FIA until his untimely death in April 2006. Satwant Singh, now a Zambian, was born in Tororo, Uganda. Satwant won the African Rally Championship an unprecedented eight times, a feat unmatched by any other driver on the continent. He privately admits that he is still Ugandan at heart. More recently in 1999, Charles Muhangi and S. Byaruhanga became the first Black Africans to win the coveted African Championship trophy, after making the competition eat dust. Ugandan -related drivers have therefore won the African Championship 9 times!
The politically difficult days of Dictator Idi Amin did affect the sport (Shekkar Mehta and Satwant Singh relocated and the Uganda leg of the East African Safari was dropped) but did not dampen the enthusiasm for motorsport. A new breed of local drivers led by the late Soceptor Munyegera started coming up from the Eastern side of Uganda, and using the old Safari Rally roads and know how a local brand of Ugandan motorsport was born.
The sport was revived in the 1980s, and over the last 10 years has grown to be one of the most popular sports in the country, competing favorably with football for popularity. During a typical rally, hundreds of fans turn out to support their local stars, creating an equivalent of a local derby and a carnival type atmosphere. Young men and women, clad in fancy wear, will turn up with their partners clearly prepared for a fun day out. The 80’s class was led by the late Jimmy Dean and had other greats such as Sam Collins Ssali and the famous Blick family.
In the ’90s another breed of drivers led by Karim Hirji was born. It is through this era that the V-Power Pearl of Africa Uganda rally was born. The event has its roots in a cooperation between the Burundi Automobile Club (CAB) and Motorsport Africa Club (MOSAC) which resolved to jointly organize Burundi’s ‘Great Lakes Rally 1996’ in Uganda, due to political instability in Burundi. This very successful ‘candidate’event (which was observed by Shekhar Mehta, RIP), inspired the Ugandans to apply for their own candidate event in 1997, the PEARL OF AFRICA UGANDA RALLY. This was the era of Legends like Charlie Lubega, Chipper Adams, Moses Lumala, Charles Muhangi, and Emma Katto.
Although arguably the most successful driver in today’s era is Jas Mangat, today’s era of drivers is led by Ponsiano Lwakataka and Ronald Sebuguzi who have been around longer than any other driver in this era. Competing under a Kenyan competition license, Jas is on course to win this year’s African Rally Championship title. He takes an 8 point lead with him into the Pearl with 3 events to go. Mzee Wycliff Bukenya can be credited with the honor of having traversed more eras in Ugandan motorsport and even at this point in life, shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.