The Federation of Tourism Association of Nigeria, FTAN, says that less than 3 per cent of tourists visiting Africa annually remove Nigeria every bit their tourism destinations.
Karim Rabo, the FTAN president, told the News Agency of Nigeria inward Lagos on sun that the figure was depression compared to other African countries that normally recorded huge patronage of international tourists.
He attributed the depression patronage to pathetic attitudes normally exhibited yesteryear Nigerian tour operators in addition to move agencies.
He likewise said that Nigerian tour operators in addition to move agencies were to a greater extent than interested inward packaging Nigerian tourists wishing to move abroad rather than packaging international tourists to Nigeria.
“Nigerian tour operators in addition to move agents promote to a greater extent than of outbound tourism than inbound which is non encouraging.
“We remove to instruct it correct yesteryear promoting to a greater extent than of domestic tourism asset/potential to the exterior populace than promoting outbound tourism,” he said.
Mr. Rabo said that in that location was a dearth of information close tourism consumptions in addition to marketplace patterns.
“Both the federal in addition to province authorities accept no information that exhibit the touching of tourism receipts on Nigeria economy,” he said.
He said that FTAN would partner multinational organisations in addition to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, NBS, to ready structures that would hold upwards collating tourists’ information at all leading tourists’ destinations inward Nigeria.
Mr. Rabo said that these would enable the authorities to know the impacts in addition to contributions of tourism sector to the Nigerian economy.
The president said that the association was the biggest investor inward Nigerian tourism industry.
“It has been contributing enormously to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in addition to employs thousands of Nigerians across the country,” he said.
Mr. Rabo said that the association members include: hoteliers; move agencies, tour operators, tourism academia, move journalists in addition to cultural artisans.
(NAN)