The Director General Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) Mr. D.I Arabi has restated the commitment of the agency to support the Nigeria Tourism Development Cooperation (NTDC) to enhance it’s operations with view to strengthen the sector.
The Director General made the remark during his courtesy visit to NTDC in Abuja recently.
According to Arabi, BPSR was ready to deploy it’s Self-Assessment Tool (SAT) programme on NTDC with the view to identifying areas of weakness and challenges facing NTDC, regardless of the successes being recorded.
This, he said would further strengthen the sector and boost the economic diversification policies of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He, therefore,.called on management staff to flank their support to DG, whom he said had remained committed in actualizing the visions and missions of the NTDC.
In his remarks, the Director General Nigeria Tourism Development Cooperation NTDC Mr. Folorunsho Cooker commended BPSR for the visit and requested for more collaborations and partnership to enable NTDC realise its mandate.
He noted that the tourism sector has the potentials to turn around the economy of the country for the better, stressing that the sector has huge potential in view of its capacity to create positive infact to the Nation Gross Domestic Product (GDP), thereby reducing unemployment among teeming population.
He therefore lamented that, insecurity and lack of estern laws hindered the activities of Nigeria Tourism Development Cooperation (NTDC) among others.
“We’re faced with numerious challenge that make it almost impossible to attract both foreign and local tourist, which includes lack of estern laws, security challenge, infrastructure deficit among others”.