Given Nigeria’s numerous potential, experts have said the tourism sector can contribute up to 10 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product...

The travel industry, in partnership with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), is set to launch a mode of identification for genuine travel agencies and agents in the air travel sub-sector.

“I worked in three banks; I was in Ecobank, then to Metropolitan Bank, before I moved to First Atlantic Bank, which later became First Inland Bank,” he said.

Many workers in the hotel sector, said to be one of the major employers of labour in Nigeria, may lose their jobs, even as pay cuts may also be applied to keep those likely to survive the looming sack. 

Travel agencies in the country are set to brainstorm and map out potential in the tourism sector that can help the economy especially at a time of recession.

Travel agencies in the country have called on stakeholders in the aviation to be more proactive and demand improvement in the affairs of the industry come 2017.

Challenges facing domestic airlines notwithstanding, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has dismissed fears that airplanes in the country are no longer safe for boarding.

Travel agencies in the country have hailed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) decision to grant a concession to foreign airlines on access to foreign exchange.

Emirates Airlines will suspend Abuja-Dubai operations beginning October 30, 2016.

President of NANTA, Bankole Bernard, said while other countries are maximising the potentials of aviation to develop their economy, “ours is already retrogressing amidst unfavourable policies and mismanagement.”

President of NANTA, Bankole Bernard, said his team had resolved to ensure a sustainable training and retraining programme for travel agents throughout his tenure.

No fewer than 14 airlines have withdrawn their services from the country due to low patronage on account of the economic recession.