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WorldStage Newsonline– Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) has urged Nigerians to harness the nation’s tourism potential to create job opportunities.
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Saudi Arabia will open its doors to international tourists under a new visa system that allows people from 49 countries to apply for e-visas and visas on arrival, official on Friday said.
Read More Saudi Arabia will open its doors to international tourists for the first time under a new visa regime to be announced Friday evening, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage said.
The move is part of the kingdom’s efforts to boost tourism.
Riyadh aims to increase international and domestic visits to 100 million a year by 2030.
“Opening Saudi Arabia to international tourists is a historic moment for our country,” Ahmad Al-Khateeb, Chairman of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, said in a media release on Friday.
Saudi Arabia has long been one of the hardest countries for tourists to enter, with visas only granted for short-term business trips, religious pilgrimage, or for travellers with family in the country.
Details about the new visa scheme and wider tourism plans will be announced at a gala event on Friday evening (local time) at Ad-Diriyah, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Riyadh.
The ultra-conservative kingdom is on a push to attract holidaymakers as it seeks to diversify the country’s economy and reduce its dependence on oil.
The tourism announcement comes less than two weeks after drone attacks targeted two facilities operated by Saudi state oil giant Aramco in the eastern province of Buqyaq, forcing the kingdom to halt about half its oil supplies afterwards.
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In a bid to attract tourists Delta state, the state government says that plans are already ongoing to develop the various tourist sites in the state.
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WorldStage NewsOnline—- In a bid to make tourist sites more attractive, the National Orientation Agency (NOA) has called on stakeholders in the tourism sector to upgrade sites across the country.
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A Curator, Daniel Hodonu says the deplorable condition of Lagos-Badagry Expressway is taking its toll on tourism as the first storey building in Nigeria located in Badagry, recorded a drastic drop in the number of visitors.
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No fewer than 144 students from the Department of Sociology and Social Work from the University of Lagos ( Unilag) , on Saturday had a tour of tourism sites in Ile-Ife, Osun.
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WorldStage NewsOnline—-The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi has identified tourism as the future of Nigeria and the way things can get better in the country.
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WorldStage Newsonline– The Lagos State Government has confirmed that the state’s economy received a major boost of N50 billion in cash transactions in the entertainment, hospitality and creative sectors in four weeks of the Yuletide.
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Mr Jalal Imani, Africa Director of the Moroccan National Tourism Office, has called for collaboration between the country and Nigeria to promote tourism within Africa.
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