The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says Nigeria will host the UN World Tourism Organisation UNWTO Regional Conference in 2022.
The minister said this in Sal Island, Cape Verde, after a meeting with the Secretary-General of the UNWTO, Zurab Pololikashvili.
The UNWTO, founded on November 1st, 1975, is the UN specialised agency entrusted with the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.
Mohammed is in Sal Island, with other African Culture and Tourism Ministers, to attend the 64th Conference of UNWTO Commission for Africa and the Second Edition of the UNWTO Global Tourism Investment Forum.
The minister said the regional conference, to be hosted in Nigeria, would focus on tourism and creative industry.
He said the tourism and creative industry team was chosen because of the comparative advantage and strong points of Nigeria in the areas of films, music, fashion and the creative industry.
