NTDC seeks discounted weekend flight tickets to Abuja

From Magnus Eze, Abuja

The Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), is to partner Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), to ensure development and promotion of the Nigerian tourism industry with a new brand, Tour Nigeria.
This would among other things, entail discounted weekend flight tickets to Abuja.
The partnership was consummated during a meeting between NTDC Director General, Mr. Folorunso Coker and chairman of the AON, Mr. Nogie Meggison, in Abuja.
The NTDC boss said affordable air travel was key and indispensable in building the tourism economy and noted that in promoting domestic tourism, the agency would explore packaged tours and digital technology to drive the consumption of the tourism assets in the country.
“This is why NTDC finds it important to establish a strategic partnership with AON to create affordable air fares within inclusive packages in order to boost domestic tourism.
“We seek discounted weekend airline tickets to Abuja to propel the success of ‘#MyAbujaWeekend’ project, further encouraging the travel businesses and promote hospitality and tourism services in capital city of Nigeria,” he said.
Meggison expressed the readiness of the association to partner NTDC to ensure aggressive promotion of tourism in Nigeria, thereby making Nigeria the cheapest holiday destination for Nigerians initially.
“The practice everywhere in the world is the Airlines being the front burner in driving tourism and Nigeria would not be an exception,” he said.