{"id":75036,"date":"2025-09-06T13:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75036"},"modified":"2025-09-06T13:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:04:40","slug":"uae-confirms-emirates-airlines-participation-in-africa-tourism-creative-economy-expo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/06\/uae-confirms-emirates-airlines-participation-in-africa-tourism-creative-economy-expo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Confirms Emirates Airline\u2019s Participation in Africa Tourism, Creative Economy Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates (UAE), has confirmed that Emirates Airline will participate in the Africa Tourism and Creative Economy Expo (AFTCREE), scheduled for November 24\u201325, 2025, in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The expo, organised by Afrocultour in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy, will spotlight opportunities in tourism, trade, and the creative sector.<\/p>\n<p>The participation of Emirates, one of the world\u2019s leading carriers, underscores the UAE\u2019s commitment to strengthening ties with Nigeria and Africa while promoting connectivity, innovation, and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation was conveyed in a letter from the UAE Embassy to Afrocultour CEO, Mr. Chuks Akamadu, last Tuesday, expressing appreciation for the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>It follows the recent endorsement of the expo by the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.<\/p>\n<p>According to organisers, the expo will advocate for increased budgetary allocations to tourism and the creative economy across African nations.<\/p>\n<p>It will also launch Agenda 2030, an initiative aimed at raising Africa\u2019s share of global trade from under 3% to at least 10%, and boosting its share of global tourism revenues, currently 5% of the $11 trillion market to 20% by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The event will further promote peer-review mechanisms to help African countries collaborate on emerging tourism and creative industry trends, with the broader goal of fostering sustainable development and shared prosperity across the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda &nbsp; The United Arab Emirates (UAE), has confirmed that Emirates Airline will participate in the Africa Tourism and Creative Economy Expo (AFTCREE), scheduled for November 24\u201325, 2025, in Abuja. The expo, organised by Afrocultour in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy, will spotlight opportunities in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75038,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75036\/revisions\/75038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}