Nigeria Attracts Less Than 3% Of Tourist Traffic To Africa Annually – Official

By Oladapo Okeowo with agency report

The Federation of Tourism Association of Nigeria (FTAN) on Sunday said Nigeria attracts less than three percent of the tourists who visit Africa annually.

This was disclosed by the association’s president, Karim Rabo, to the NAN.says that less than three per cent of tourists visiting Africa annually disclosed by the choose Nigeria as their tourism destinations.

He said this percentage is relatively low and attributed it to such problems as the poor attitude of Nigerian tour operators and a predilection by the same tour agencies to package tourist trips that take people to other countries.

“Nigerian tour operators and travel agents promote more of outbound tourism than inbound which is not encouraging.

“We need to get it right by promoting more of domestic tourism asset/potential to the outside world than promoting outbound tourism,” he said.

Added to these, the problem is compounded by the unavailability of data about tourism consumptions, impacts and market patterns.

This, according to him, would be solved with the FTAN partnership with multinational organisations and the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to set up structures for the collation of tourists’data from all tourists’ destinations in Nigeria.

The association, with its myriad of members – hoteliers; travel agencies, tour operators, tourism academia, travel journalists and cultural artisans- contribute significantly “to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and employs thousands of Nigerians across the country,” he said.

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