These lodge classification standards and management methods have been sourced from worldwide requirements and greatest practises utilized to vacationer lodging infrastructures world wide.
ABUJA, NIGERIA – Director Generals and Experts within the National Tourism sectors of Member States have converged in Lomé the Togolese capital for a 3–day technical assembly for Tourism to amend and validate the brand new regulatory texts for vacationer lodging institutions inside ECOWAS area. The adoption of those new rules will give the ECOWAS vacation spot a harmonized, standardized, qualitative and aggressive lodging companies for Hotels, Ecolodges, Motels, Appart’resorts, Hostels, Guest homes, Cruise-boat, Camping/caravan, Holiday village and Inns.
These lodge classification standards and management methods have been sourced from worldwide requirements and greatest practises utilized to vacationer lodging infrastructures world wide, will outline a brand new regulation by affirming nationwide cultural and architectural identities, contemplating the setting and the local weather, and creating labels and certificates that shall be particular to the West African Region.
During the opening ceremony, earlier than declaring the assembly open, Dr. Kossi G. Lamadokou, the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Leisure of Togo, welcomed the leaders of the tourism business to the gorgeous Country of Togo which testifies to our widespread need to make the tourism sector a lever for the financial and social improvement of our respective international locations, he added. He additional paid tribute to the ECOWAS Commission to selecting the Togolese capital to mark a serious turning level within the improvement technique of tourism in Togo.
He emphasised the significance of this assembly of specialists which is able to the area to enhance high quality and competitiveness and thus contribute to elevating the GDP of the ECOWAS zone. This is why he invited Experts to take possession of those paperwork, to transpose their ambitions for our tourism business into them. He advocated for them to deploy all their experience and ingenuity to complement the proposals on the desk. He burdened that he counts on the Experts’ diligence throughout the given deadlines in order that we are able to, collectively, carry to the eye of the ministers of tourism the advice to carry the texts to the supreme anointing of the Conference of Heads of State and Government.
On his half, Dr. Anthony Luka Elumelu, ECOWAS Director for Private Sector, who represented the Commissioner for Economic Affairs & Agriculture, Mrs. Massandjé TOURE-LITSE, reiterated the unalloyed dedication of contributors to the event of sustainable tourism sector within the area.
He hailed the big contributions made by the tourism business to many economies world wide, which has elevated the demand for vacationer lodging. However, the related demand comes with the necessity for correct regulation to make sure the protection and luxury of vacationers, in addition to the sustainability of the business, he added.
He recalled that the lodge provide throughout the ECOWAS area was guided by the textual content ready by the ECOWAS Executive Secretariat in 1999, which now not meets the wants of the rising business that has developed and remodeled with the deployment of latest lodging formulation corresponding to visitor rooms and ecolodges. These rising points are what impressed the revision of the regulatory texts: amongst others the attraction, accessibility, facilities, safety and environmental imperatives with out forgetting the general public well being facets induced by the shock of epidemics and pandemics which have riled our area, he mentioned
Participants have been offered with the regulatory texts for the classification of vacationer lodging institutions by Mrs Stella Christiane DRABO, Program Officer Tourism ECOWAS and subsequent suggestions shall be validated by the Ministers in Charge of Tourism in ECOWAS, on the ministerial assembly on Friday, seventh April, 2023.
Vicky is the co-founder of TravelDailyNews Media Network the place she is the Editor-in Chief. She can also be accountable for the every day operation and the monetary coverage. She holds a Bachelor’s diploma in Tourism Business Administration from the Technical University of Athens and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wales.
She has a few years of each tutorial and industrial expertise throughout the journey business. She has written/edited quite a few articles in varied tourism magazines.