As the World Tourism clan prepares to storm Ghana next month for the 30th anniversary of the World Tourism Day, Kano State government says the state is ready to host the country’s edition.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched an IATA Billing Settlement Plan (BSP) in Ghana starting 1 August 2009. The BSP operation brings new efficiency to the relationship between travel agents and airlines by providing a one_stop standardized interface. 11 airlines and 21 travel agents are currently participating in the Ghana BSP programme.

As much as tourism can bring prosperity, purpose and pride to a destination, so too can it take these benefits away. With increases in arrivals of leisure and business travelers to a destination, tourism has the potential to cause damage to a destination’s value and values system as a result of over_use of infrastructure without re_investment back into maintenance and renewal critical to the “engineering” of the destination.

As muslim all over the world prepares for this year’s Ramadan fasting, the Lagos Airport hotel is rolling out mouth watering offers for its customers during the thirty day fasting.

The President of The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, CITN, Prince Kunle Quadri has said that for Nigerian economy to survive in view of recent drop in revenue accruable to all levels of government in the country from oil, Nigeria need to diversify its revenue base, improving upon its collection of taxes.