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Tourism in AfricaOpportunities and Challenges
Dayo OsholowuThe Àjàlá Travel Company
Lagos NIGERIA
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Tourism is like a fire(Asian Proverb)
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Professional Traveler or Travel Professional?
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“As the growth rates of tourism in Africa has grown twice as much as any other region around the world, and here in South Africa”
INSIDE AFRICAAfrica's Tourism Industry
Aired May 19, 2007 - 12:30:00 ET
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Vision: A retail store in every major city in Nigeria selling “African”
packaged tours.
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Not just potential any more. GROWTH!
“Africa's tourism sector most resilient: Southern Africa leads the way”
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Let's focus on sub-regional tourism
Mr Modou Tala Jobe, Marketing and Communications Officer of The Gambian Tourism Authority, on Wednesday called on Tourism Ministers and stakeholders in West Africa to focus on promoting domestic sub-regional tourism because it was more sustainable.
September 23, 2009Accra, Sept. 23, GNA -
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Trickle down effect
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We got it wrong at first! We ignored African Tourism
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Many Challenges
-Border Control/Entry Clearance
-ECOWAS Protocol
-Transportation
- Marketing &Distribution
-Trust barrier
-Information
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Hidden opportunities
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
Joseph Campbell
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Solutions
24 hour open borders
Multi-nation marketing
African Passport
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How can we work together to promote regional and continental tourism?
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"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."Washington, Booker T. on Things and Little
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Thank you for listening!
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Dayo Osholowu
email: [email protected]:+2348037080031
Ajala WorkSpaceP.O Box 52259Falomo Ikoyi Lagos NGwww.ajala.biz
Ajala Travel Company is a registered partnership with the Corporate Affair Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with registration
number OG23323