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No fewer than 100 women from different countries in Africa who emerged winners of the 2022 edition of ‘Africa 100 Travel Women Awards’ have been honoured at the 18th Akwaaba African Travel Market which held recently at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos .
They are African women from 20 countries who have excelled in areas such as Tourism Leadership, Travel and Tours, Aviation, Hospitality, Conservation and Media. One of Nigeria’s best-known travel journalists, Justina Okpanku, also won the ‘2022 Africa Travel Women Awards’ in the ‘Media’ category.
Organiser of the event, Mr. Ikechi Uko, had earlier disclosed that the awards would form part of the 18th Akwaaba African Travel Market Show.
Okpanku, Managing Editor of Justtours Media (Nigeria), also writes for a number of publications including THISDAY Newspaper and Daily Independentng as a contributor.
Lagos State Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs. Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf and South Africa’s Tourism Minister, Sindiwe Sisilu, as well as the Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, Abimbola Akinajo, also emerged top winners in the ‘Leadership’ category of the awards.
Other winners include Elizabeth Twumwa, CEO, Ghana Aviation; Maria Baryamujara, founder of COBATI; Iyaduni Gbadebo, Director of Sales & Marketing, Eko Hotels and Suites, Nigeria; Cecile Mambo, Managing Director of CMD Tourism and Trade, and Delphine Brew-Hammond, Director of Events and Operations Miss Tourism Ghana as well as Yar Mayendit, Chairperson, Association of Tourism, South Sudan, and Charlotte Beauvoisin, Diary of Muzungu- Uganda.
The organisers of the awards, Akwaaba African Travel Market, said Akinbile-Yussuf has been in the forefront of driving the growth of tourism in Lagos State with many lofty projects to restart tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the organisers, “Lagos is the only state in Nigeria that has formulated tourism Masterplan.”
First held in 2017, the Africa Travel 100 Women Awards recognises African women who have excelled in travel and tourism.
