Tourism Expert Urges Nigerians To Visit Relaxation Centres To Be Healthy

Chief Austin Ndigwe, a tourism expert, has advised Nigerians to shun negative lifestyles in preference for relaxation at recreation parks and other hospitality outfits to live healthier lives.

Ndigwe gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Friday.
He urged Nigerians to always be close to nature instead of resorting to lifestyles such as smoking and consumption of alcohol that would have long time negative effects on their health.

He urged Nigerians to always be close to nature instead of resorting to lifestyles such as smoking and consumption of alcohol that would have long time negative effects on their health.

Ndigwe, who is also the Managing Director, Wonderland and Amusement Park, Awka, Anambra, expressed the determination of the park to change the face of hospitality and tourism industry in the state.

He said that the park, a new tourists’ destination sited on Agu-Awka, Enugu-Onitsha expressway, was part of his effort to tap the reach tourism potential of the state.

“I decided to build this facility because there is nothing like this anywhere in this state, people and their families who want to have fun only go to hotel and eateries.

”Here, we try to provide varieties of what people want, the games are so much that an individual cannot exhaust them in a day, the animals are there, the environment has green tree.

“It is a new dimension in the hospitality and tourism industry in Anambra,’’ he said.

Ndigwe, who also conducted NAN round the park, described it as a ‘’wonderland’’ furnished with facilities to enhance relaxation and boost healthy living.

According to him, the new park also represents a great private sector intervention in the tourism industry in the state but needs government’s support.

Ndigwe urged the state government to take deliberate steps to develop the hospitality and tourism sector to boost its revenue profile in view of the dwindling oil revenue from the international market.

He said that since federal allocation to the states had reduced considerably due to fall in oil revenue, tourism sector had become viable alternative for the states to augment its revenue generation.