Lagos State Governor Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has acknowledged the huge potentials of the hospitality sector, saying that the industry was capable of generating huge revenues for the state. Ambode stated this at the official commissioning of The George, a hospitality centre in Ikoyi, Lagos, adding that his administration would access the opportunities in the sector. […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has nabbed two officials of the VIP Express Tourism Limited, a travel agency that is alleged to have swindled hundreds of Nigerians to the tune of N70million. The two officials, Banabas Magi, Accountant, and Owoseli Samuel, General Manager, were picked up on Monday, June 29, 2015 and are currently […]
Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has projected that the state would soon assume the number one status in Tourism Corridor in the country with the near completion of its International Event Centre, known as ‘The Dome’ in Akure, the state capital. The governor who inspected the Dome construction site along Igbatoro road with his […]
Nigerian Tourism Development Commission (NTDC) has opened two tourism information desks at the new domestic wing of Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos (MM2) in order to ease traveler's burden. NTDC partners with Viko Nig. Ltd, a tour operator to set up the desk. A week earlier, NTDC also commissioned information desks at Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, […]
Over 900 participants, including over 45 Ministers and Vice Ministers of Tourism and unwtoCulture, international experts, speakers and guests from 100 countries, gathered at the UNWTO/UNESCO World Conference on Tourism and Culture in Siem Reap, Cambodia, to explore and advance new partnership models between tourism and culture (4-6 February 2015). Tourism, moving more than one […]
While it makes sense to bemuse the huge expenditure in foreign exchange therefrom, government needs to take tourism as serious economic diversification project, especially as the reality of continuous fall in the price of crude oil dawns on the nation: For several years, we have lived with the well-to-do Nigerians, or societal upstarts on the […]
