Our Founder

Formerly an educator up to the early 90s, Richard started this company with the idea of walking visiting tourists around the city he had been working in. Later, he broadened the idea to taking them to places he knew… then discovered there’s a lot more that can be done for them. In no time, which was two years of small bookings, he had Kabarole tours incorporated - July 1994.

He had continued teaching but was now effectively leaving the vocation of teaching and paying more attention to his passion for the environment. He relates back to a day he vividly remembers stopping lamber jacks from taking down a forest which still sits in the valleys of Kihingami. He has since made investments in the same area to turn the forest, the swamps and the veges there into a learning hub for this generation.

In 2013, while he had already done 20 years of Tours and travel, he launched his institute commonly referred to as Kvettti - Kihingami Vocational Educational and Tourism Training Institute. The latter now boasts of becoming the leading diploma and degree awarding institution with courses in Hospitality, Hotel Management, and Tourism. Some of the members on his team are proud alumni of the same institute.

It goes without saying that Richard is sort of a father and grand father in this industry, and many of his friends call him the pioneer. Nobody has seen him back down when times changed, except many have joined him as he goes on to curate more experiences - and grow the industry - basing on both knowledge and experience from the last 30 years.