Ishan Babani: Why Tourists Should Come to Africa

Operational Manager of Cinderella Travel and Tours, Ishan Babani, talks about how his company promotes tourism in Africa. Charles Ajunwa brings excerpts 

Can you tell us what your company is all about?

Our company is related to travel and tours. We do packages, hotels, visas, and tours. We are one of the leading B2B companies in Nigeria. We have our offices all over Nigeria. Whether Port Harcourt, Enugu, Abuja, Kano, we are present there. We have almost 20 offices all over Africa. We are a Pan-African company.

How is your company promoting tourism?

In terms of promoting tourism, our major focus in Nigeria is to promote tours in Nigeria. We regularly have packages for people outside Nigeria. They should come to Nigeria and experience their culture. We have done almost 15 groups last year, having 20 people in each group. They came to Nigeria, we did all their flights, accommodations, and visas. We did everything for them. And they really love it.

 People are going from Africa to other countries just to get a luxury but we know that Africa has the capability. They have those things, but they go outside. So we promote people to come to Africa. View Africa with their eyes. Not just go on the stories. They should come, visit and see how lovely people are. How they have taken care of their nature. Still they have the natural resources and what they have saved. So this is how we used to promote tourism in Africa.

What other products are you offering your clients?

For nature, we have packages for Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania so that people will see how beautiful the nature is. For Nigeria, last year when we came to Akwaaba, a few of our staff went to Ekiti State for tourism. They went there, they saw the culture. It was a sponsored trip for them so that they can go and see what is going on. What Nigeria has actually. What is the power of Nigeria in terms of tourism. We have packages for Nigeria.

Can you tell us some of these packages?

I would prefer that they should go and explore the website and Instagram channel. We have our phone numbers, our email there.