Director-General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), Mrs Sally Mbanefo, had revealed plans to generate $4 billion from Nigeria’s domestic tourism.
The domestic tourism is another way of looking inwards on the potential of the Nigerian tourism market to generate revenue and create jobs.
Mrs Mbanefo made this known on Wednesday, in Abuja, while briefing journalists on the developmental programmes of the corporation.
She said: “If we assume that a low estimate of 20 million, out of 160 million Nigerians, travel locally for business, leisure, culture, religion or sports annually and they spend only 10 per cent of Nigeria’s per capita of $2,000 annually, we will have a $4 billion domestic tourism market.”
She said that the boosting the domestic tourism market would include quality services on land transport, improvement in travel security and an up-to-date information about sites and attraction.
She added that the NTDC would also establish major tourism centres in the six geopolitical zones, which would be a one-stop centre for everything tourism to help provide tourists with a decent environment to get information about sites and offerings.
She also revealed that the corporation would also establish Nation-Wide Travel Hubs, which, she said, would redefine the concept on land travel and water-way travel, jetties and motor parks in Nigeria.
