By Tom Okpe Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government and the United Nations World Tourism Organization, (UNWTO) are currently working with some private sector players to establish a Tourism Academy in Lagos. The Minister disclosed this in Lagos on Friday at the graduation of the first set of […]
BY IDONG INYANG, CALABAR The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), has granted Nigeria the rights to host the first-ever UNWTO Global Conference on ‘Linking Tourism, Culture and the Creative Industries’. The conference, which is scheduled to hold from 14th to 16th November, 2022, at the National Theatre Complex, Iganmu, Lagos, will provide an opportunity […]
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that 166 foreign delegates, 26 Ministers and 332 Nigerian delegates have been slated to participate in the world meeting which begins today in Abuja. Mohammed, in a pre-meeting press conference on Sunday, in Abuja, said that all is set for the 61stmeeting of the United […]
…. Over 1000 hotels operate in Nigeria ….To ensure a more robust and realistic aggregation of tourism statistics in Nigeria, the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has committed to use of the Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA) framework. Recommended by the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), the TSA framework, adopted in 2015 by the NBS, links all […]
UNWTO is deeply saddened and shocked by the attack in the Bardo Museum in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. UNWTO conveys its heartfelt sympathy to the families of the victims who lost their lives or were injured, and expresses its solidarity to the people and the Government of Tunisia and to the governments of all […]