Mrs Mariel Rae-Omoh, the acting
Director-General, Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC)
,said on Thursday that the corporation had resolved to work with
stakeholders to move the industry forward.
Rae-Omoh during an interactive session
with stakeholders in the tourism sector in Lagos said that
collaborating with professionals was one of her cardinal objectives
for the sector.
“I have my cardinal objectives; and
the major goal is to sell the country’s tourism potential to the
outside world and, in turn, boost our economy.
“We can only achieve our goals when
the experts in the sector join their voices and ideas with ours.
Then, we will set the goals to be met and come out with a practicable
blue print to achieve the set objectives,” she said.
According to her, stakeholders are
quite key in any development; so they must be embraced in order to
succeed, especially, in this industry.
She noted that though some of the
tourism sites were not in place, the blue print to be produced would
centre on reviving identified tourism sites and developing those that
had existed.
That would pull foreign tourists into
the country, she said.
She added that boosting the morale of
the staff would further accelerate the mission of boosting the
industry.
“The staff is the engine behind the
success of any organization; if they have low morale, the outcome
will not be successful so they must be adequately motivated,’’
she said.
She, however, urged the stakeholders
and the press to collaborate with the corporation toward achieving
the basic goal of promoting the corporate image of Nigeria to the
international world.
“Our basic goal is to sell our
country to the world; we cannot do it on the pages of the newspapers.
“The professionals and stakeholders
should be the ones fronting the goals on our behalf; so we need to
collaborate with them.
“I need a lot of workable advice,
suggestions and challenges from those on the field so that the
industry can become an economic hold for the country,’’ she said.
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