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The owner of the Brooklyn Hotel Group and former president of the Association of Tourism Professionals of Nigeria (ATPN), Chief Mike Amachree, called on the various levels of government of the country to use tourism to combat the unemployment in the country. He said tourism is the largest employer on the planet and that by investing in and paying more attention to tourism, the industry could create jobs and reduce unemployment.
Amachree was speaking at the AGA of the Federation of Tourism Associations of Nigeria. Recently, where he was conferred with the honor of Nigeria's father of tourism.
Speaking why the FTAN decided to confer the honor of Nigeria's father of tourism on Amachree, FTAN chairman, Alhaji Saleh Rabo, said that Amachree had been in the industry of Tourism for over 55 years and has contributed enormously to the development of tourism in the country.
He said that Amachree was among the founders of FTAN and ha He did a lot for the country as part of the promotion and advocacy for the development of the industry.
Among the achievements of Amachree: the first national president of the Association of Tourism Practitioners of Nigeria (ATPN) in 1990; a director of the Nigeria Tourism Board (now NTDC) in 1991; Nigerian representative at the United Nations Commission for Africa Conference of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in 1992 in Ghana; organized the first Abuja Carnival in 1990 when General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) was the head of state.
At the FTAN AGM, Alhaji Saleh Rabo called for the injection of funds into the Nigerian tourism industry.
"Essentially, we want to engage some national and international funding organizations to obtain subsidies or investment funds, which is what Nigeria's agricultural sector benefits from.
"Accordingly, we plan to involve relevant organizations, including the Bank of Industry (BOI) and the Nigeria Export Promotion Board (NEPC) to support FTAN members. "
Speaking of FTAN's activities in the past year, Rabo said:" Up to now, we have achieved some of the milestones we have supported in our campaigns and we are still making considerable efforts to achieve even more of our strategic plans. Until now, we have obtained an appropriate national secretariat for the FTAN and we have since improved the structures and processes of the functions and administration of the secretariat
"We have recently set up a department research and advocacy for tourism. "FTAN is about to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The agreement protocol will cover both the capacity development of the new FTAN research department, as well as the partnership on research in the tourism industry, including the Nigeria Tourism Satellite Account (TSA). ); "Speaking of Nigerian tourism development and true to our promise to open new destinations, we started organizing the quarterly meeting of the FTAN Board of Governors in the geopolitical areas of Nigeria. Until now, we have had two board meetings in Lagos and one in Port Harcourt. In fact, the next council meeting in October of this year will be organized by FTAN South-East Zone, specifically in Owerri. "
He emphasized that FTAN objectives are to facilitate tourism investment for operators in our industry." Reiterating the federation plans to designate members as "recognizable clusters of tourism operators for standardization." and working with investment funds to badess financial services needs, such as designing a transparent framework for qualification and access to investment funds / grants. [19659002] The culmination of the FTAN AGM was the adoption of a new constitution for the badociation that was pbaded by the house and came into force.
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