Yoruba Tourism Club congratulates the Youth Tourism Development Organisation (YTDO) Lagos-State Chapter

-

 



Yoruba Tourism Club congratulates the Youth Tourism Development Organisation (YTDO) Lagos-State Chapter for sucessfully organising a 3 days event tagged “Beach Bootcamp/Hangout” converging 50 tourism stakeholders accross 11 states in Nigeria at ibeshe private beach.



 In a press statement by the Vice-President of the tourism club, Princess Adeyemi Adedoja, it was advised this type of event should be organised more often at different locations to constantly re-orientate the stakeholders in the sector, to network more and make the domestic tourim sector grow saying if we don't appreciate oursleves who will? and stating "domesic tourism attracts international tourists.


Signed
Princess Adeyemi Adedoja
Vice President
Yoruba Tourim Club.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Olójó Festival 2024

-
Image
 The Olojo Festival is an ancient festival celebrated annually in Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. It is one of the popular festivals in the Yoruba land, and was once described by Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi as a festival that celebrates the Black race all over the world. The Yoruba word 'Olojo' means 'The Day Of The First Dawn' that describes the grateful heart of man towards God's creation and the existence of Human. The Olojo Festival is a culture festival in the calendar of the Ile-Ife, Osun State which is located in the Southwestern part of Nigeria. It is the celebration of the remembrance of “Ogun”, god of Iron, who is believed to be the first son of Oduduwa, progenitor of the Yoruba people. The festival is held annually. It is one of the biggest festival on the culture calendar of lle-Ife. On this day, the Ooni (king of Ife) appears after seven days of seclusion and denial, communing with the ancestors and praying for his people. This is to make him pure and ensure
Read more

The Intersection of Culture, Arts And Inclusion for Sustainable Development

-
Image
We often refer to the sensitive theme of Inclusion and Diversity even though, used interchangeably.  Perhaps we can justify the cliche of social justice and equity to score a point, despite populist notion that this contraption is overlooked and misunderstood. The  discourse and treatment of diversity and inclusion only began to gain significant traction during the 'Paris Gender and Equality'  Convention Agreement in Copenhagen. The policy thrust for socio- cultural change is a buzzword that was eventually adopted within the periscope of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) The approach introduced by various  development experts, placed intrinsic value upon the need to streamline this complex discourse. It is envisaged  that with passage of time, larger societies would  begin to embrace and grapple with the critical challenges of  implementing the core ethos of Inclusion and Diversity, particularly for developing countries.  Dissecting empirical evidence of the essence
Read more

Ekiti Gastronomic vibes part 1

-
Image
  Ado-Ekiti sunday morning Iyan vibe is a evolving cultural concept with a gastronomic value. i grew up in Ado-Ekiti to understand that owanbe parties happens on saturday nights later saturday afternoon/evening and Ado-Ekiti been the capital of Ekiti-State the christian population dominates so sunday mornings are always 80 percent of church activities so you scarcely find a buka where food is sold...... this informed some set of people as the scarcity of food on sunday mornings continued, the cache to my observation with the people that came for the owambes were majorly not living here, even the other part guests living here will be kinda tired to want to cook on sunday mornings, but i trust some houses will still do. this write up makes me remember the smell of Rice chicken and dodo, listening to some old jams in my grandpa's house after church. Now, the sunday morning food scarcity has systematically created a culture in Ado-Ekiti now making iyan an available food in almost every
Read more