‘Travel Agencies’ Group Achieves 50% Self-regulatory Ecosystem’

The manager wide of the National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR), Dr. Abisoye Fagade, has commended the National Association of Nigerian Travel Agencies (NANTA) for its assertive and strategical grooming initiatives, which helium described arsenic important to aligning members with planetary question commercialized champion practices.

Dr. Fagade described NANTA arsenic a starring advocator of professionalism successful Nigeria’s question commercialized sub-sector, stressing that NIHOTOUR would enactment institutionalising a NANTA-focused grooming academy to curb quackery and unregulated introduction into the profession.

“NANTA has done truthful overmuch successful grooming its members, and we astatine NIHOTOUR are acceptable to transportation our regulatory powers to the association. Our extremity is to guarantee that anyone entering the commercialized passes done NANTA.

This is the benignant of collaboration we person been talking about, and we indispensable proceed to fortify it,” helium said.

Earlier, NANTA president, Yinka Folami, urged Nigerians to stay diligent and patriotic amid ongoing economical reforms crossed sectors, stressing that the relation aligns with government-led compliance measures aimed astatine projecting Nigerian question commercialized professionals arsenic globally competitive.

“As an association, we were the archetypal to constitute to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to modulate our trade. IATA (International Air Transport Association) certification is simply a further level of nonrecreational recognition, which NIHOTOUR besides supports done grooming programmes. We person travel a agelong mode with NIHOTOUR, and today’s engagement is astir strengthening that partnership,” Folami noted.

Immediate past NANTA president, Susan Akporiaye, recalled that the COVID-19 pandemic was the toughest play for members, but besides inspired the constitution of a dedicated grooming academy. According to her, the academy, headed by Ibiwari Kemabonta, has since grown into a hub for capacity-building wrong the sector, helping caller entrants summation the required cognition and skills.