Tourists choose where they visit because of unique features associated with such places. These include, culture, architecture, gastronomy, infrastructure, landscape and events, sometimes, shopping experience. According to tourism experts, these features make one destination different from the other. Jos as a destination for whites During colonial era, up to the 1990s, many identified Jos, originally […]
Tourists choose where they visit because of unique features associated with such places. These include, culture, architecture, gastronomy, infrastructure, landscape and events, sometimes, shopping experience. According to tourism experts, these features make one destination different from the other.
Simply put, Jos was a haven for tourists, who leveraged its natural endowments for corporate and personal recreation. Jos Wildlife Park, known as one of the Plateau State’s topmost tourist attractions used to be one place in Nigeria where nature has been conserved. “In a sector for conservation such as this, we need continuity, where we get new animals and the animals get paired to enhance breeding.
Proof of the establishment of the course is boldly engraved on the now antique trophy which reads, “This trophy celebrate the occasion of a visit to Rayfield in 1948 of Mr. Angus Butler, who laid out the first golf course at Rayfield in 1913 and the first six holes of the present course in 1921 or there about.
“Tourism on the Plateau was a very huge revenue base in terms of human and natural gifts to the state. Prior to the era of Plateau/Nasarawa State, the state had a huge mineral deposit of tin, columbine, precious stones, tourist centres such as Wase Rock, Jos Museum, Jos Wild Life Park, the Asa Falls in Riyom, Polo Club, the Golf Club, Rwang Pam Township Stadium and others. This is apart from the hotels, the Yakubu Gowon Airport and the Dryland Port.
He also listed the poor state of the airport, which has forced passengers to travel by road instead of flying to Jos, as one of the factors that have contributed to the reduction in the number of tourists visiting the state. “By 1988 up to 1996, it was a 24–hour flight daily. But today, it is one flight per day. The Jos Dry Container Port has not been completed and has not started bringing in any good or services.“The office of the Plateau State Tourism Corporation, opposite Plateau State Polytechnic, is in a dilapidated shape, while all the vehicles, machines and equipment used to transport tourists have been grounded.
Some of the thriving hotels in Jos are Crispan Suites and Event Centre, Shetan Hotel and Suites, Silk Suites, Elim Top Suites, Crest Hotels, Sharna Palace, Valada Hotel and Resorts, Universal Hotels and Festival, Mandela Hotel, Kamdala Hotel, Yelwa Club, Treasure Inn Hotel and Hotel Samarita.Another former staff of Plateau State Tourism Corporation, Mr.
He described golf as a major contributor to the development of Plateau State’s tourism industry, saying it has improved the gross domestic product of state through patronage of the public and private sector facilities. “Let me take it one after the other. Any time there is a golf tournament on the Plateau, you hardly have space in any hotel. Almost all the hotels are fully booked, thereby, adding value to the hotel owners. Apart from that, even the staff of the hotels, some of them get stipends out of the goodwill of the golfers and some whose duty is to wash vehicles in the hotels, earn something.
He attributed golf’s rising profile under Governor Simon Lalong to the fact that the governor knows what the sport can offer the state. Yilman said the sport has also brought peace to Plateau State, as well as opened the state to outsiders. “When he came here, all golf courses were brown, but now they are all green, just as you see in overseas. This is the handiwork of the governor. Jos is one city that has more golf courses centralised within the city.
“The hotels are also much cheaper than those in other cities. The highest you can get in any hotel for a golfer is ₦15,000 per night. One thing about golf is that anywhere golfers are going, they get rebates either in airfare or hotel rates. They get the discount. Most times they get up to 10 to 20 per cent discount anywhere they are going. So, if you pay ₦15,000 and you are given 20 per cent discount, it is even enough for a golfer to pay comfortably for one week and enjoy himself.
“We have companies like NASCO, Grand Cereals and others. They picked up the challenge because they know what golf club does. The sponsorship was mainly by government. The club has taken it upon itself to reach out for private sponsorship.”For Yilman, “golf and tourism cannot be separated. The greatest tourists in this country are golfers. All the golfers stay in hotels close to the golf course.
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