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TRAVEL AND TOURISM AWARDS... ABUJA BANTABA.

Today by 4pm at the banquet hall of the Sheraton hotel Abuja 100 individuals as well as companies in the travel and tourism business in Nigeria will be honoured in line with Nigeria's celebration of her 100 years together as an entity.
 Abuja Bantaba will celebrate the pioneers, the exceptional, innovators and the legends of the travel business some of whom have never been recognized before.As Nigeria celebrates centenary anniversary, Abuja Bantaba will be honouring the 100 leading Travel anand Tourism personalities in Nigeria’s history at the Travellers Award Dinner today April 25, 2014 at Abuja.
According to the organiser of Abuja Bantaba, “the annual travel event organised by Akwaaba Travel Market in Abuja, which is a one-day speed-dating event at Abuja Sheraton Hotel, in its fourth edition celebrate with Nigeria the Centenary.
Special guests of honour are Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State, Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Princess Stella Oduah and Hon. Minister Mrs Akon Eyakenyi.
Among those expected to receive awards is the Nigerian who invented the popular Cocktail drink Chapman, Gov. Liyel Imoke, he took up the Tourism projects of Cross River and drove it to phenomenal heights.The world Famous Carnival Calabar known as the biggest Street Party in Africa grew from a local event to a global event. The personalities who were carefully drawn from both core and allied tourism and travel sector, based on their immense contribution to tourism include CP Audu Bako the former Governor of old Kano State, seen as one of the greatest tourism visionaries in Nigeria along with Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia former Governor of Old Bendel State credited with numerous tourism projects and Dr Donald Duke the former governor of Cross River State. Other pioneers in Aviation include Chief Igbinedion of the famous Okada Air the first private major airline in Nigeria, Sir Louis Ojukwu of Ojukwu Transport, Chief Ubajiaka of Izuchukwu transport, Austin Ilodibe of the famous Ekene Dili Chukwu. In addition, frontline hospitality and tour operations will be honoured along with the first male and female pilots.
Today,  Nigeria is one of the fastest growing hospitality hotspots in the world and with a huge travelling public and aviation profile with its travel agents generating over $1.25b in a year. With transformation in progress, it is expected that the future of travel business in Nigeria is bright.
The centenary of Nigeria comes with different landmark celebrations and for the tourism sector and players, the stage is set to roll out drums not only to assess and celebrate achievements, but also to encourage icons whose efforts are indelible at bringing tourism promotion to limelight, says Ikechi Uko project director.