BLACK BOY AFRIKA, DASHBOARD INNOVATIONS AND FLYZONE TOURISM HOSTS THE SECOND EDITION OF ‘ THE GLOBAL TRAVEL TOURISM CONFERENCE/FESTIVAL 2025’ IN LAGOS, NIGERIA.

BLACK BOY AFRIKA, DASHBOARD INNOVATIONS AND FLYZONE TOURISM HOSTS THE SECOND EDITION OF ‘ THE GLOBAL TRAVEL TOURISM CONFERENCE/FESTIVAL 2025’ IN LAGOS, NIGERIA.

The second edition of the global travel tourism conference/festival 2025 has come and gone but conversations and insights shared will echo within the Industry for some time.

Black Boy Afrika founded by Babatunde Afolabi is an events and tour agency based in Lagos, Nigeria and in collaboration with Dashboard innovations founded by George Ugbegua brought together several industry leaders within the travel, tourism, hospitality space to connect, interact and fashion out ways to stimulate more inbound tourism into Nigeria which one of the numerous ways mentioned was through experiential tourism..

The key speakers at this year’s event were Mrs. Hajia Bolaji Mustapha (NATOP president), Mr Otunba Michael Balogun (CEO Tour2Nigeria), Mr Akinlawon Adams (CEO Loving Lagos), Mrs Agbonmere Benedicta Ijie (MD/CEO Deblex Global travels and tours), Mr.Henry Alade (Experiential marketing professional) and Ms, Cynthia Salami (Food influencer) and conversations were centered around the need to promote everything Nigeria from food, destinations, local fabrics, historical center’s, museum’s, music, fashion etc so as to get more foreign nationals to visit Nigeria.

In attendance were young travel creators, tours/travel agency’s, content creators, travel agency’s, hospitality experts, NATOP and NANTA members, members of APPOEMN etc, players within the ecosystem.

A mini festival event which took place after the conference was another laudable one has they had on display, music performances from local young artists, cultural display performances, exhibition of lots of locally made products by various vendors.

The founder of Black Boy Afrika, Babatunde Afolabi passionately emphasized on why the industry players need to collaborate more so as to afford better opportunities for Nigeria globally for tourism, he shared that Ghana, Benin republic, Rwanda etc are doing remarkably well stimulating inbound tourism and Nigeria can do better if all players come together to work and not keep waiting for government support.

Another highlight of the event was the announcement by Black Boy Afrika of the Amala and palm wine festival coming up is September which is a new tourism product geared at re-introducing Nigeria to the world.

This festival, described as the first of its kind in Nigeria, promises to be a grand showcase of the country’s tourism potential.  Many thanks to our partners, Blow48, At3resources, Stagemakerz, Wendytravels and Big shout out to Flyzone tourism our major sponsor for coming onboard this project as they are your one stop agency for all types of visa applications and their support for Nigerian tourism can not be quantified.