Anambra Govt Moves To Reposition State Tourism Sector , Meets With Hotel Owners

Tourism investment opportunity in Nigeria remains one of the fastest growing income markets in recent time. 
According to records, in twenty-eighteen alone, the Tourism sector generated five per cent of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, amounting to over four billion dollars.

Though the figure is a slight decline from the over four-point-eight billion dollars generated from the sector, in twenty-fourteen alone, the Anambra State Government believes the Tourism industry could be reformed to yield better income for the state, and play key role in employment creation and entrepreneurial breakthroughs.

A parley with hotel owners in Anambra State, was organized by the Anambra State Government, through the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, Indigenous Artworks, Culture and Tourism recently.
In the chronicle of tourist sites in Nigeria, Anambra State has remarkable number including  the Owerre-Ezukala Caves and Waterfalls, Ogbunike Cave, Agulu Lake and Resorts, Obu-Gad and Trinity Tree, amongst other heritage sites. 
These tourist attractions, the Anambra State Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs, Indigenous Artworks, Culture and Tourism, Mrs. Sally Mbanefo, noted, provide immense opportunities for the over two hundred and eighty-nine officially registered hotels in Anambra State, who could harness the potential of the heritage sites to grow income and attract more investors to Anambra State. 
Mrs. Mbanefo, who said the meeting  was paramount to the drive by the present leadership of Governor Willie Obiano, to make the state a cluster point of tourists and investors, stated that the a clear-cut implementation roadmap with the transport sector, youth and the tourism sector, was essential to facilitate the  ambitions of the government in that regard.  
On his part, the Chairman, Hotel Owners Association, Anambra State, Doctor Godwin Okonkwo, described the interaction  as an effective approach to a result-oriented hotel management that does not only pursue profit, but contribute  to the growth of the tourism industry.  A guest speaker and an expert in hospitality and transport management, Mr. Chidi Kanu, who took the hoteliers on modern marketing trends in hotel and transport enterprises, charged them to key into  changes and new  possibilities in hotel management and development of the hospitality industry, and earn  revenues both for themselves and the state. 
Some of the hoteliers including  Chief Ifeanyi Nwokoye and Chief Dilim Okafor applauded the Anambra State Government for bringing the stakeholders toghether,  assuring  that they will incorporate the new trend into their businesses, as well as assist the investment goals of state government.