ECOWAS honours Ayodeji as ambassador

The Principal Executive, Flyzone Tourism, Awomoyi Ayodeji was among other professionals honoured as Ambassador by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Youth Council.

The honour was in appreciation of his laudable antecedents of dedication, hard work and diligence in the area of service to humanity and commendable works as an advocate and relentless crusader for promoting the development of the African youth. Held in Lagos, Ayodeji commended the Council for the honour, promising to put in more effort to help humanity.

The gesture came barely a year after he was honoured as Akwaaba Travel Personality of the Year, a member of the 100 Tourism Personalities in Nigeria, and also a member of Under 40 Nigeria.

He described Akwaaba African Travel Market as a strategic platform that continues to promote business opportunities for travel agencies, airlines, hotels, and tour operators, among other stakeholders, adding that Akwaaba brings different tourism boards, embassies, tour operators, and travel agents together for business opportunities.

“The first thing is that there is no business without connection. When you have a product, and people do not know about it, then I am not sure you can do anything.  Even a bad product that is marketed well will sell more than a good product that is not well-marketed. Akwaaba has helped travel agencies, airlines, hotels, and tour operators to connect.

Ayodeji stated that what Flyzone does is to connect travel agencies with countries as well for their visas, noting that applying for visas from other countries requires a lot of documentation.

“We arrange many things for the tour operators to ensure they are fine, l because we have relationships with some of these countries based on our algorithms, friendship and business relationship, so it is easier for us to connect with these countries and their tourism boards than for a travel agent to connect directly. So I will say we are like a middleman between Nigerian travel agents and tourism boards of other countries of the world,” he added.