Photo caption : Tourism Minister, Mrs Lola Ade–John and Transport Minister,Alhaji Said Alkali during a meeting recently
The Minister of Tourism, Mrs. Lola Ade-John as part of her massive advocacy to grow tourism in Nigeria has met with the Minister of Transport, Alhaji Said Alkali to work on modalities to improve domestic tourism in Nigeria using the rails and road infrastructure.
The Tourism Minister’s meeting with her Transportation counterpart is to share ideas on the available transport infrastructure in Nigeria and how Nigerian Tour Operators can tap into the existing infrastructure to grow their business.
At the meeting , it was agreed that a Joint Committee be constituted that will involve the Nigerian Tour Operators to evolve a workable framework to implement an effective domestic tourism project in the country.
Recently, the Minister had engaged her counterpart in the Interior Ministry on easing visa access for African travellers coming to Nigeria.
She had also reached out to the Minister and Comptroller General of Nigerian Immigration Service to resolve issues associated with visa on arrival such as the cost of visa,which has been an obstacle to improved visit for tourists.
Her advocacy has been praised by event organisers and her emerging advocacy is the next phase of engagement with the industry.
A as a Minister, she spent the first part attending tourism events all over the country to know the stakeholders and listen to them.
Lola Ade-John has attended more tourism events in one year than most tourism ministers did in 4 years.
She has promised to engage other interdependent ministries and department to ease the challenges the stakeholders face as part of their business.
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