For instance, following the confirmation of five suspected cases of the COVID-19 in Akwa Ibom State, Governor Udom Emmanuel announced a total cessation of movements and prohibition of all events of any nature in the state for 14 days.
The point is that as more people self-isolate and cut down on international and even domestic travels, in compliance to national and state directive aimed at containing the spread of the virus, operators along the value chain count their loses.Home to an estimated 20 million people, Lagos is Nigeria’s commercial/financial hub; Ogun State, an industrial hub, came under the lockdown order because of its contiguity to Lagos, and the high traffic between it and Lagos.
Even before the total lockdown, panic-stricken Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, reportedly announced a partially shut down over the threat of Coronavirus. Its management said it scaled down by temporarily closing down at least seven of its services to minimize the threat of the virus. The association’s move to mitigate the damage on the industry via sensitisation resonates with the efforts of UNWTO, which, since the start of the current crisis, has been working closely with the wider UN system, including directly alongside W.H.O. to guide the sector by issuing key recommendations for both high-level leaders and individual tourists.
Pololikashvili said mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on tourism was necessary because “it is clear that millions of jobs within the sector are at risk of being lost.” From hotel to restaurant, transportation, destination management, souvenir production, packaging of carnivals, festivals and cultural promotions, among others, the opportunities of leveraging this key growth sector to create jobs, shore up revenue and add to the nation’s GDP are limitless.
Unfortunately, however, the strategic push to reposition tourism to drive the on-going diversification has come under serious threat, following the imposition of a wide-range of travel restrictions and other measures put in place to contain the spread of the deadly virus.
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