Engaging my hotel chain for my first Akwaaba AfTM experience paid off - Olugbenga Sunday

Mr. Olugbenga Omotayo Sunday HND, MITP, MTI, FIHTM. MIH Mr. Olugbenga Omotayo Sunday's story is one of the motivating testimonies that has continued to inspire the hosting of the annual Akwaaba African Travel Market on Lagos, in spite of the mountain of challenges the organizers have to surmount every year to host one of the three most prestigious travel exhibitions in Africa and one which does not have the government bank rolling it. One of the intriguing feature of this experience is the mind blowing fact that a first time attendee to Akwaaba African Travel Market successfully carried 9 managers of their hotel chain to the travel exhibition in 2014, the very year Ebola virus ravaged West Africa and the same year that the event had many cancellations from several countries that have earlier made commitments to attend. Ironically, for the organizers, "It became the year that we broke even after 10 years of hosting the travel exhibition", says Mr. Ikechi Uko, the CEO of Ak...