The founder and president of La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort , Ikegun, Lagos and La Campagne Club, Ikeja, Lagos, Otunba Wanle Akinboboye, has been honoured with the 2015 Nigerian Tourism Man of the Year.
This was at the 2015 Accra Weizo. The organizers said the award was in recognition of his contribution to the development tourism in Nigeria and West Africa.
The honour, according to the organizers, was also in recognition of his contribution to the promotion of African culture.
Akinboboye, who is also the founder of Motherland Beckons, a body which is devoted to promoting African culture and integrating the black race all over the world to their ancestral home, Africa (Motherland), was described as a huge personality and investor in the travel and tourism business whose involvement in the Nigerian tourism has greatly helped to extend the frontiers of the country’s tourism.
His indefatigable promotion of African cultural heritage through his various engagements and platforms such as Motherland Beckons, Atunda Entertainment, KampAfrica and HURP, was also applauded, a fact that is well replicated in his La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort, a wholesome Africa-themed resort where he has succeeded in blending nature with a rich mix of Africa motifs and tinges of modernity and sophistication to bargain.
Akinboboye, who is also the Tourism Ambassador of the World Conference of Mayors (WCM), is currently replicating truly and successful the Africa-themed resort in Cote de Ivoire with over 20 of the resorts billed for operation in no distance time across the French-speaking West African country.