"Tourism supposed to have its own Ministry "- Spohia Khan

Sophia Khan
Publisher of Travel Appeal Magazine, Sophia Khan made  this remark during interview chat at the 4th International Hospitality, Tourism & Eco- sustainability Forum(IHTEF AFRICA) held on 16th April, 2019 in Abuja, she said that Federal government supposed to give Tourism sector a separate Ministry.


" The government needs to allocate separate ministry for tourism sector ,to move the tourim forward
 
She went further to add that  until the government start tourism as the new oil in the country we are no were, because the government don’t known and they don’t want to known. The government's of the day are not interested in tourism because they don’t have knowledge of the benefit in tourism.

The conference is fine and good and is what we need ,especially in the area of hospitality and tourism .

In times of tourism in Nigeria we have not started because the government of the day is not interested in tourism. And for that the tourism is been handle by the private sectors. So we are doing our best  but, we need government policy. Because without the government we can’t go far, we need policy regulation, and all that the government supports , and put regulation in place for up-coming Private sectors and make the environment conductive so the private sectors will drive it. A lot of people pulled out from the industry's , because they got stocks,  those once that are in  the industry are just there for passion . Not for anything, but it frustrates, because they have passion they keep on pushing. Nigerian we are the lest in the countries, because of natural tourism. Well I think most of our tourism are natural, we hardly have man-made. 

Sophia Khan 
Publisher, Travel Appeal Magazine 

And we have not even managed our natural tourism talk more of creating another. If there is no conductive  environments in the industry the youth will not come. The percentage of  youth in the industry are 80,  several of them are there because there is no job, not because they have passion or seeing a lot of money been made out of it, or encouragements. But if you want the youth, you have to encourage them ,make the industrial attractive , then you make it less frustrating. That one of the challenge's that makes people not to come in. if you see some of the youth that are in the industry, they are  awaiting for a good job, until they get the bank job NNPC , but for now let me just be here, that is the attitude's you get from the youth.

REPORT BY JOHN ONOJA