1. Posted on Tuesday 7 April 2009 - 10:20

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   Temi-Tope Ogbeni-Awe, AfricaNews reporter in Lagos, Nigeria Photo: Bas Vlugt

   Nigeria has emerged the biggest market for South Africa Tourism in Africa, contributing over 43,000 arrivals to the touristic growth rate recorded last year, South Africa Tourism's Regional Director for Africa and Domestic, Phumelela Dhlomo disclosed.

   

   Dhlomo said the arrival figures from Nigeria which peaked to an-all-time high of 11.3 per cent has further encouraged SA Tourism to make the country, a key market in its relentless drive to position South Africa as the preferred destination for global tourists.
   
   Speaking at the monthly breakfast business meeting of the Nigerian-South African Chambers of Commerce, sponsored by South African Tourism, held in Lagos, Dhlomo disclosed that tourists from Nigeria form a significant portion of the 11 per cent global and 7 per cent inbound tourists from Africa; thus making it the biggest tourism market outside Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).
   
   While presenting the global and continental scorecard of South Africa Tourism’s drive for increased flow of arrivals into the country, Dhlomo stated that arrivals indicator from Nigeria between 2003 and 2007, confirmed that there has been significant improvements of about 74 per cent of arrivals from Nigeria most of whom were either general holiday tourists or business travelers.
   
   Encouraged by the development, Dhlomo said South African Tourism has put in place a number of incentives to further attract Nigerian visitors to South Africa, listing initiatives such as ‘the story teller’ campaign which was aimed at encouraging business tourists to extend their stay to savour the rich leisure attractions in the country.
   
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   As a follow-up, he said South African Tourism was embarking on a word of mouth advocacy that would afford Nigerian visitors to South Africa the opportunities to win an all-expense-trip to South Africa by simply utilizing multi-media platform in the dedicated website www.southafrica.net/nigeria to tell their experiences while in the country.
   
   Speaking on the forthcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, he said the focus of South African Tourism is to use the global football fiesta as a tourist draw card to get visitors to extend their stay, exposed them to other leisure activities and spend more and to extend invitation to visitors to come to South Africa after the event.
   
   South Africa’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Kingsley Mamabolo expressed optimism that both Nigeria and South Africa are well placed to withstand the onslaught of the current global economic downturn in view of their strategic position in the African continent.
   
   Mamabolo who described Nigerians as hospitable people, further called for greater bilateral collaboration between the governments of the two countries for sustained economic growth adding that, “we need to work towards improving relations to see how we can salvage ourselves from the present economic crisis even though it has not affected us yet.”
   
   To demonstrate his resolve to forge partnership between the two countries, the envoy urged Nigerian business entrepreneurs to utilize the window of opportunities provided by his office to further improve the existing economic ties between the two countries.
   
   The High Commissioner also used the occasion to praise Nigeria’s efforts during the apartheid era saying, “we in South Africa remember how Nigeria helped us in our trying days. I can assure you I will do whatever I can to facilitate improved trade relations between South Africa and Nigeria.”

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1. Posted on Saturday 25 April 2009 20:27

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   frishakamer

   

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   You got TB Joshua and Pastor Chris to thank for that Nigeria

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2. Posted on Tuesday 30 March 2010 13:18

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   Offcource Nigeria especially Lagos is very well know and growing tourist place in Africa. Which is famous for its beautiful places and tourist attractions . But the problem is that the fares of the different airlines are very expansive but if you try you can get the cheap flights to Harare

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3. Posted on Monday 26 December 2011 08:18

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   Many countries today rely on tourism and travel for economic development as the industry is now one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors. However, the Nigerian government still sees and treats tourism as an instrument of entertainment and not instrument of economic development. However, it is true that if Nigeria can add the advantages of culture and tourism to that derived from the oil sector, the country will easily overtake South Africa.

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   I've visited Nigeria and I really believe that it doesn't deserve the reputation it has in the world. We got a travel deals through Eholiday Collection and found the people to be generous and warm hearted. Nigeria really has alot going for it and should really be looking at tourism instead of just oil.

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   I have been thinking of taking a trip to South Africa, can anyone recommend any good hotels there? I know I am a little late since the world cup took place two years ago, but I have not been able to get away from my work until recently.

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