Youths charged to embrace tourism business

A call has gone to Nigerian youths to embrace travel and tourism business because of its multifaceted and multiplier effects as well as the importance that the world places on it in order to be meaningful engaged.
This was the submission of the various speakers at the recently held eighth edition of Youth Tourism and Hospitality Leaders Forum at Jogor Centre, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Attended by young people from all walks of life, including students from tertiary institutions, tourism practitioners, the academics and the media, Coordinator Tourism and Development Programme, University of Ibadan, Dr. Raphael Alabi, and Ibraheem Kukoyi of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, highlighted the various opportunities in travel business for youths.
Earlier in his opening remark, the convener of the event and also the publisher of Travelscope Magazine, Omololu Olumuyiwa, charged the youth on the imperative of waking up to the realities of the opportunities that exist in the tourism and hospitality industry.
‘‘We now live in a global village in which the travel, tourism and hospitality industry daily assumes greater importance both as key economic industry, as it is today the greatest creator and employer of labour and catering as a major source of revenue earner for many countries”, Omololu explained.
Awards were presented to some of the participants at the event, among which were Jemi Alade – award of Destination Nigeria Ambassador; Dr. Raphael Alabi – Tourism Educational Achiever; Ibraheem Kukoyi – Tourism Educational Ambassador; Dr. Raphael James – Educational Tourism Ambassador; Bosun Oladele – Youth Tourism Empowerment Ambassador; Tope Ogbeni-Awe – Tourism Journalism Achiever and Paschal Ogunkoya – Youth Tourism Ambassador.

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