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  • HACR hosts Calabar Hospitality Fiesta

    HACR hosts Calabar Hospitality Fiesta

    THE Hoteliers’ Association of Cross River (HACR) recently hosted Calabar Hospitality Fiesta hosted in the city of Calabar.

    It was a moment of celebration of its coming of age by the hoteliers, an occasion to showcase its beauty, create awareness about the tourism sector, opportunity for the hoteliers to interact and network and create activities to drive traffic to the city as well as serves as a prelude to the one month yearly Calabar Festival.

    But more importantly as stated by the chairman of the association, Mr. Charles Ogar of Pyramid Hotel and Conference Centre, said the event was “another milestone in our quest to developing the tourism sector. It is a product we believe will create visibility and attract traffic to our businesses. A journey must start with a first. We have, as an association, started our journey into the future with this step tagged CALHOSFI.”

    The hospitality fiesta was held in collaboration with Celebrity Planet 9ja, organisers of the Miss Hospitality Ambassador pageant and a host of other partners, including Multiple Choice. The theme of the celebration was ‘ain’t stopping us,’ and this was quite apt and instructive in many regards.

    The celebration was kick started with cocktail and unveiling of brochure and pageant’s contestants at the Calabar Municipal Garden, a hunting ground for leisure in the city, which turned out to be the host of many of the events.

    It was a colourful night with the hall draping in bright colours and exciting moments filled by members of the association and their visitors as well as fun seekers from across the city. The over 30 beautiful maidens who were adorned in blue T- shirts and jeans trousers added to the aesthetics of the day and the vivacious and convivial mood.

    HACR’s chairman used the occasion to re-iterate the reasons behind the event and the benefits of it while urging everyone to take part in the week long feast, which in his words promised to be as entertaining and fulfilling as ever.

    Other speakers of the night included the secretary of the association, Mrs. Justina Ovat, and the owner of Greenvalley Hotel and Calabar Municipal Garden, Eyo Ita, who is also a member of the association.

    The second day witnessed a city walk/musical concert with members of the association gathered at Okoi Arikpo House, home to Cross River State Tourism Bureau (CRSTU), in a motorcades led by the beauty queens attired in blue T – shirts and bum shorts in Novaroster’s double deck tour bus riding through Marian to Calabar Municipal where they congregated for the music concert.

  • HACR to host Calabar Hospitality Fiesta

    The Hoteliers Association of Cross River (HACR) has announced plan for the host of the maiden edition of the Calabar Hospitality Fiesta (ALHOSFI) 2015.

    As revealed by the Chairman of the HACR, Mr. Charles Ogar, the event is a collaboration with Celebrity Planet 9JA, organizers of Miss Hospitality Beauty Pageant.

    ”The intent is for it to be the largest and most comprehensive business and leisure event for the hospitality industry in Cross River State,” said Ogar, adding that “this is the first of its kind in the state”.

    It is billed to take place between October 28 and November 1 at the Municipal Garden, Calabar.

    Hoteliers Association of Cross River, which is a registered corporate body and the umbrella association for hotels and other tourism establishments in the state, according to him, ”seeks to promote and protect the business interests of members.”

    Therefore, the chairman disclosed that ”CALHOSFI is an initiative that seeks to accomplish the following: Provide networking opportunity for hospitality business practitioners; provide access to high value customers; provide sales and marketing platform; reviewing the state of the industry through interactions; and showcasing company products and services in the industry.

    “It would witness the showcasing of the beauty and talents of young Cross Riverians; showcasing the comparative advantage of our God’s given diverse cuisines and culinary delicacies, while some of the activities slated for the five-day gathering include courtesy calls, city walk, welcome reception, food fair/exhibition, talk shops, beauty pageant and gala night.

    ”It’s going to be a colourful event that will span through more than five days of business and social interaction.  Above all, it’s hoped that this will metamorphose to a fulfilling business and pleasure event in our tourism calendar that will attract traffic to our hotels yearly,” said Ogar.

    Ogar lamented the poor economic nature of the state, especially that of hospitality which he said has been affected by low tourist traffic to the state.

  • HACR to host Calabar Hospitality Fiesta

    The Hoteliers Association of Cross River (HACR) has announced plan for the host of the maiden edition of the Calabar Hospitality Fiesta (ALHOSFI) 2015.

    As revealed by the Chairman of the HACR, Mr. Charles Ogar, the event is a collaboration with Celebrity Planet 9JA, organizers of Miss Hospitality Beauty Pageant.

    ”The intent is for it to be the largest and most comprehensive business and leisure event for the hospitality industry in Cross River State,” said Ogar, adding that “this is the first of its kind in the state”.

    It is billed to take place between October 28 and November 1 at the Municipal Garden, Calabar.

    Hoteliers Association of Cross River, which is a registered corporate body and the umbrella association for hotels and other tourism establishments in the state, according to him, ”seeks to promote and protect the business interests of members.”

    Therefore, the chairman disclosed that ”CALHOSFI is an initiative that seeks to accomplish the following: Provide networking opportunity for hospitality business practitioners; provide access to high value customers; provide sales and marketing platform; reviewing the state of the industry through interactions; and showcasing company products and services in the industry.

    “It would witness the showcasing of the beauty and talents of young Cross Riverians; showcasing the comparative advantage of our God’s given diverse cuisines and culinary delicacies, while some of the activities slated for the five-day gathering include courtesy calls, city walk, welcome reception, food fair/exhibition, talk shops, beauty pageant and gala night.

    ”It’s going to be a colourful event that will span through more than five days of business and social interaction.  Above all, it’s hoped that this will metamorphose to a fulfilling business and pleasure event in our tourism calendar that will attract traffic to our hotels yearly,” said Ogar.

    Ogar lamented the poor economic nature of the state, especially that of hospitality which he said has been affected by low tourist traffic to the state.

  • HACR to host Calabar Hospitality Fiesta

    The Hoteliers Association of Cross River (HACR) has announced plan for the host of the maiden edition of the Calabar Hospitality Fiesta (ALHOSFI) 2015.

    As revealed by the Chairman of the HACR, Mr. Charles Ogar, the event is a collaboration with Celebrity Planet 9JA, organizers of Miss Hospitality Beauty Pageant.

    ”The intent is for it to be the largest and most comprehensive business and leisure event for the hospitality industry in Cross River State,” said Ogar, adding that “this is the first of its kind in the state”.

    It is billed to take place between October 28 and November 1 at the Municipal Garden, Calabar.

    Hoteliers Association of Cross River, which is a registered corporate body and the umbrella association for hotels and other tourism establishments in the state, according to him, ”seeks to promote and protect the business interests of members.”

    Therefore, the chairman disclosed that ”CALHOSFI is an initiative that seeks to accomplish the following: Provide networking opportunity for hospitality business practitioners; provide access to high value customers; provide sales and marketing platform; reviewing the state of the industry through interactions; and showcasing company products and services in the industry.

    “It would witness the showcasing of the beauty and talents of young Cross Riverians; showcasing the comparative advantage of our God’s given diverse cuisines and culinary delicacies, while some of the activities slated for the five-day gathering include courtesy calls, city walk, welcome reception, food fair/exhibition, talk shops, beauty pageant and gala night.

    ”It’s going to be a colourful event that will span through more than five days of business and social interaction.  Above all, it’s hoped that this will metamorphose to a fulfilling business and pleasure event in our tourism calendar that will attract traffic to our hotels yearly,” said Ogar.

    Ogar lamented the poor economic nature of the state, especially that of hospitality which he said has been affected by low tourist traffic to the state.