Hoima Resort Hotel is located in the upscale residential area of Hoima City, one kilometer from City Center and 205kms (3hrs) from Kampala City in Western Uganda. The hotel offers 12 Suites, 45 self contained rooms with DSTV, Internet connectivity, 9 conference halls, indoor games, choice of 3 bars and 2 restaurants.
The business-friendly lounge of the hotel, club-house, gym, sauna & steam bath are complementary offers to residents.
Hoima Resort Hotel is located in Hoima Municipal Council (Town) the Headquarters of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom in Western Uganda. Bunyoro Kingdom was one of the most powerful kingdoms in East Africa from 13th Century to the 19th Century. It is ruled by the Omukama (King) whose main Palace is located within Hoima town about 2 kms from Hoima Resort Hotel. The current King is His Majesty Rukirabasaija Solomon Gafabusa Iguru 1, the 27th Omukama (King) of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Bunyoro was established in the 13th Century. The founders of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom were known as the Abatembuzi, a people who were later succeeded by the Bachwezi and the current dominant community are Banyoro.
At its height, Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom controlled the great lakes region of Africa. It was the strongest military and economic power in the Great Lakes region covering the whole of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, parts of Northern Tanzania, parts of Western Kenya and parts of Eastern Congo. Bunyoro began to decline in the late eighteenth century due to internal divisions. Buganda Kindgom seized parts of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom including the regions of Kooki and Buddu at the end of the century. In the 1830s, Bunyoro-Kitara’s large province of Toro broke way.
By the mid-nineteenth Century, Bunyoro- Kitara Kingdom was a far smaller State. Due to several armed struggles between Bunyoro and Buganda Kindoms over control of the then lucrative ivory trade, the Kingdom’s capital was moved from present day Masindi town to Mparo ( now a Bural Tomb of Late King Kabalega located 5 Km from Hoima Resort Hotel on Masindi Road) during the mid-nineteenth Century.
In 1894, Great Britain declared Bunyoro Kingdom its protectorate. The reigning (King) Omukama Kabalega resisted the British takeover of his Kingdom and fought a guerrilla war upto 1899 when he was captured and exiled to the current Republic of The Seychelles an island in the Indian Ocean. Bunyoro – Kitara Kingdom was subsequently annexed to the British Empire. Because of Bunyoro’s resistance to the British, some portions of the Kingdom were demarcated and given to Buganda Kingdom and to Toro Kingdom by the British Conquerors.
In 1967, the Government of Independent Uganda abolished Kingdoms. The Kingdom of Bunyoro, together with four others, Buganda, Toro, Ankole and the Territory of Busoga remained banned until 1993.
In 1993, the Central Government re-established Kingdoms. The current Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom is much reduced in size and covers only the districts of Hoima, Masindi, Bulisa, Kibaale and Kiryandongo. According to 1997 projections, the total population of the Kingdom is about 1,200,000 people. The economic potential of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom is huge, with the recent discovery of large deposits of oil and gas. The oil and gas wells are located along the shores of Lake Albert in the Rift Valley (92 kms along a smooth tarmac road from Hoima Resort Hotel). The area also has large rainforests and the largest National Park in Uganda, the Kabalega (Murchison) National Park located about 150 kms from Hoima Resort Hotel.
