Using Emu Oguro (Local Palm Wine) Exportation to attract
Foreign Tourists
Nigeria is a country blessed with so many natural and agricultural resources. We are so much blessed that we seem to have these resources in
excess as compared to almost all the countries in the African continent. Whether we’re using these resources to our advantage or not is a
different ball game entirely. I recently stumbled on United Nation World Tourism Organisation’s (UNWTO) website to check out some of
the programmes it has lined up for the last quarter of the year. In the coming months, the apex tourism body will be organizing a wine
tourism conference in collaboration with the Georgian National Tourism Administration. The press release on its website stated: “Georgia’s
unique winemaking traditions date back 8,000 years and are considered by UNESCO as intangible heritage, making the country an ideal
host for the Global Conference on Wine Tourism. The country’s recent success in attracting a growing number of tourists and its
development of tourism products, branding and marketing, combine to present an excellent platform for sharing best practices, experience
and knowledge.” Wine tourism, did you say?
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