Travel & Tourism

GRAND Express Tours Centre (GETCentre), a travel management company   has just opened its doors for business in the Opebi area of Lagos with the mission to offer professionally driven and customer service in order to promote Nigerian tourism to the global market.   The tour operating firm started out in 2007 as Touchdown Travels…

IN PROMOTING its vision and advocacy for sustaining the development of  luxury markets within Nigerian and Africa at large, Polo Avenue store, Nigeria’s leading luxury goods brand recently showcased to guests, the laudable efforts of trending Nigerian designers Zashadu and Ariaba Beads.    In a bid to inspire budding luxury designers from within the continent,…

THE 2015 elections though have been postponed, but several Lagosians will be voting for love today in a special way through ValentineVote, a programme put together by a digital advertising agency, INK3K8 Media and partners - Terra Kulture, and Hangout Nigeria. The programme, which was created for couples to share romantic experience, took off yesterday…

FOR his commitment to duty and the ability to raise a result-oriented team, the General Manager, Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Etienne Gailliez, has been named winner of Hilton Worldwide 2014 Middle East and Africa (MEA) President’s Award.   The award, which was announced at the Hilton Worldwide EMEA Operational Excellence meeting in Dubai recently, recognized…

IF birds are hotels, the Dover hotel in Ikeja, Lagos will be known as dove. Located in a busy area of Ikeja, Dover hotel is a sanctuary of peace. It is not the peace of graveyard, but the serenity of a space secured from the maddening crowd of the city bustling at seam. For visiting…

• Wozniak Becomes GM At Four Points By Sheraton Lagos SHERATON Lagos has put together special treats for guests at Valentine. The offers were designed for guests to rekindle love in an exotic environment provided by the hotel.  According to the Public Relation Manager Sheraton Lagos Hotel, Ms. Deborah Benjamin, this year’s Valentine has a…

SOUTH African Tourism (SAT) is working to ensure that Indaba 2015 exceeds the business expectations of both exhibitors and buyers.  SAT Chief Executive Officer, Mr Thulani Nzima said in a release that   INDABA will give exhibitors effective platform to showcase their products and services, and to do business. “INDABA belongs to them,” he said.…

OIL revenue is declining globally. According to OPEC daily basket price, the crude oil price has slipped down to$44 a barrel yesterday. This figure representing about 61 percent decline compared to $115 for which the price was sold in June 2014. With this slump, GDP of many oil-producing countries will shrink.  Already countries such as…

THE United Nations General Assembly, rising from its 69th session, has adopted a key resolution recognizing the contribution of sustainable tourism to poverty eradication, community development and the protection of biodiversity.   Emphasizing the need to optimize the economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits stemming from sustainable tourism, particularly in developing countries, the resolution entitled…

AFRICAN Travel Times, Nigeria and West Africa only monthly travel and tourism magazine has announced the institution of an annual award.  According to its Publisher/Editor, Lucky Onoriode George, the award is to annually recognize ‘excellence’ in the travel and tourism sector in Nigeria, saying that, a genuine and respected award in the industry was long…

OODUA Peoples’ Union (OPU) is set to hold it first world congress in Lagos on Monday January 26. Themed Eko 2015, the Congress will host over 2000 participants constituted by Yoruba in diaspora.  Addressing a press Conference in Lagos last week, the convener of Oodua Peoples Conference (OPC) and the national Coordinator Of OPU Otunba…

FITUR International Tourism Trade Fair will starts on Wednesday January 28 and end on Sunday February 1.    The trade show with 10.5 million euros budget will hold in Madrid, Spain.  According to the organiser, IFEMA, the event will feature 9,107 companies from 165 countries and about 200,000 visitors from around the world, of which…