You are considering sending several thousand dollars to a company in another country that you have never met. You should check us out, and we would rather show you how than ask you to take our word for it.
These can all be confirmed without asking us. That is the point.
Registered company name
Beyond the Wild Tours & Travel Limited
Search the name at the Uganda Registration Services Bureau. A registered company appears in the public register.
Check here ↗Company registration number
Ask us and we will give it to you
Cross-check the number against the URSB register. It should match the company name exactly.
Check here ↗Tax identification number (TIN)
Ask us and we will give it to you
A registered taxpayer can be verified through the Uganda Revenue Authority's TIN validation service.
Check here ↗Tourism operating licence
Ask us and we will give it to you
Licensed tour operators are registered with the Uganda Tourism Board. Ask us for our licence number and check it with UTB directly.
Check here ↗Registered address
Kampala, Uganda
Ask us for the full address. We will give it, and you are welcome to visit by arrangement.
Some registration details are not published here yet. We are a new company and parts of our registration are still being completed. Ask us and we will send you what we hold, along with how to verify it. We would rather say that plainly than display something we cannot yet evidence.
Hold us to these. If anything claiming to be us does the opposite, it is not us.
This applies whether or not you travel with us. Travel fraud is real, and Uganda has its share of it. We would rather you booked safely with somebody else than got defrauded.
🚩 Pressure to pay immediately
A legitimate operator will let you check them out. Nobody should be rushing you into a same-day transfer for a trip months away.
🚩 Payment to a personal account
Money for a company trip should go to a company account in the company's name. If an account name does not match the business, stop and ask why.
🚩 No written terms before payment
You should receive what is included, what is excluded, and the cancellation terms in writing before any money moves.
🚩 Prices far below everyone else
Gorilla permits have a fixed cost set by the Uganda Wildlife Authority. An operator quoting well below the permit price alone either does not have permits or is not planning to buy them.
🚩 Refusing a video call
Any real operator can spare twenty minutes to speak to you face to face before you send several thousand dollars.
🚩 Only reachable through social media
A business should have a real email address at its own domain, a phone number that answers, and a registered company behind it.
🚩 Reviews that all sound the same
Dozens of five-star reviews posted close together, with similar phrasing and no specifics, are usually bought.
We are new. We do not have hundreds of reviews, years of trading history or a wall of awards, and we are not going to manufacture any of them. Our reviews page is empty because nobody has travelled with us yet, and it will stay empty until someone has.
What we can offer instead is a video call with a founder before you pay anything, written terms in advance, verifiable registration, and being straightforward about exactly this. Judge us on that.
