The chairman of the Yaba College of Technology Governing Council, Prof Funsho Afolabi, has assured that the College tourism roadmap towards professionalism and a sustainable blue economy can yield excellent results and align with the federal government’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
Afolabi stated this during the 2024 United Nation’s World Tourism Day celebration held at the institution’s Tourism Village at her Epe campus in collaboration with Nigerian Tourism Development Authority (NTDA) South West Zone with the theme: “Tourism and Peace”.
The Professor of Hospitality and Tourism said, “There is no doubt of the fact that, by this assembly, we have created a platform for intellectual discourse and engaging activities such as exhibitions, cultural displays, parades, entertainments, interactive sessions that would help in mapping and charting a course towards the development of both theories and best practices, that could serve as articular facet for understanding the positive relationship between Tourism and Peace to facilitate the federal government Renewed Hope Agenda”.
According to him, “for the World Tourism Organisation (WTO ) to have brought up freshly, the issue of Tourism and Peace from the proceeding historic four years is what: Mr President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria- Aare Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu: Mai Grima Shugaban Kasa Najeriya (GCFR )’s through Sectoral Screening of Ideas for Tourism Products Development, has enunciated his Vision of now and the future as; The Renewed Hope Agenda” and the College through her Department of Tourism Management Technology (TMT), Epe Campus, is helping Mr President to fulfil his mandate.
Emphasizing the types of Tourism: Domestic Tourism (Internal), Inbound Tourism (National), and Outbound Tourism (International), he averred that the Department of Tourism Management Technology of the College, in collaboration with NTDA South West Zone, is at the driver’s seat among the institutions of higher learning worldwide that are complying with the United Nations recommendations on Tourism statistics.
