Tourism development: It’s integration or nothing at all!

The more one thinks about development policies currently being put in place or, in some cases, already operational, the more it is apparent that there is need for better integration and cross sectoral cooperation in the development of new policies. In fact, no sector’s role is useless (no matter how marginal) in deriving a new …

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Our Port Harcourt Zoo

I finally got a chance to visit the Port Harcourt Zoo over the weekend. Not much has changed since I last visited the zoo in 2004. One thing I noticed though was that the volume of visitors was high and kept increasing until I left the Zoo at 12.30pm. I was told by one of the visitors …

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Tourism, Learning and Saving the Port Harcourt Zoo

A couple of years ago, precisely 2003, I started the Save Port Harcourt Zoo Campaign, with the aim of raising awareness on the need to save the local zoo from collapse as a result of  'inadequate care and nutrition for the animals.' The goal was to 'to set up a Zoo Renewal Fund' in addition to a student …

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