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Hotel Classification To Gulp N3bn – Runsewe
The Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) on Sunday in Abuja said the country needed more than N3 billion to classify hotels in the country.
The Director General, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, told The Tide that classification of hotels was an international matter that required lot of money to embark on.
“To classify and grade hotel is not just a one-off thing. It is not a local government thing. It is an international thing where you invite the body responsible for classification to come and study the hotels before classifying them.
“They have to live in the hotels for months without your knowledge to observe all the activities going on in the hotel to give their judgment.
“You have to pay for their transportation, lodging and feeding for the period they have to stay in your country to study the hotels and all this entails a lot of money,’’ he said.
Runsewe, however, noted that government was working toward the classification of hotels that would assist to boost the tourism industry.
He said that the corporation was working to reduce crime and fraud in the industry, adding that some persons who claimed to be tour operators were fake.
“I am trying to introduce bio-metric system in tourism. We want to do bio-metric so that we have information of every staff working in the hospitality industry.
“This is the practice all over the world. Regulations in the hotels are new to Nigerians but we must start and push to get things right. We are making people to understand it must happen,’’ he said.
He also called on state government to be committed in the development of tourism sites in their state to create jobs, increase internally generated revenue and boost tourism.
Runsewe said that if state could be committed to the development of tourism in their state, it would go a long way to bring development at the centre.
He said that the corporation was committed to the development of tourism and cultural festivals, adding that NTDC was supporting more than 150 festivals across the country.
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