Now that the Ministry of tourism and that of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy – under the baton of Hannatu Musawa – complete the picture, what’s to stop the nation from hosting even more global meetings this year? The UNWTO’s 2024 calendar of gatherings is packed. Think gastronomy tourism and sports tourism, notably the Football tourism Forum. The UNWTO and other advocates of inclusivity must take a fair amount of their events to Global South hosts like Lagos, Abuja and many other sites on the continent and beyond.
With captains of Nigeria’s tourism industry preparing for the 2024 edition of Meetings Africa, a look at the rearview mirror is instructive. Much remains undone, not least the return of artifacts looted by Europe to the country. A dozen heritage sites from Kwiambana (Ningi) to Benin Iya/Sungbo’s Eredo, have stuck on UNESCO’s tentative…
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