Sambo, who stated this during the official commissioning ceremony of the hotel in Abuja on Saturday, said the project was in line with the Federal Government resolve to ensure that Nigeria markets her tourism potentials properly by providing state-of the-art luxury accommodation and catering facilities for discerning tourists.
He said, “to properly compete in the tourism market, you need affordable and well-packaged accommodation facilities which are the basic needs of both leisure and business tourism.”
Sambo noted that recent forecast by the World Tourism Organization (WTO) indicated that tourism would play an increasingly important role in the new millennium and by the year 2020, tourism traffic would triple with 1.6 billion tourists visiting countries and spending $2 trillion, noting that Nigeria must work hard to reap huge benefits from this windfall and assume her rightful place in the comity of nations.
Sambo also used the occasion to renew the commitment of the Federal Government towards providing sufficient and stable electricity which, he said, would “substantially lower the costs of production and operations for our industries, improving their transnational competitiveness.”
Earlier, Goje had said that the hotel was one of the abandoned projects inherited from his predecessor since 2003. He said having adjudged it as economically viable and a politically worthwhile venture, he embarked on the project to expand the revenue base of the state.
He said the hotel was one of many projects he had embarked on and disclosed that projects such as the Gombe olympic-size stadium and the Gombe International Hotel have been slated for commissioning.
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