No fewer than 100 women from different countries in Africa will be honoured having emerged winners of the 2022 edition of ‘Africa 100 Travel Women Awards.’ They are African women from 20 countries who have excelled in areas such as Tourism Leadership, Travel and Tours, Aviation, Hospitality, Conservation and Media. One of Nigeria’s best-known travel journalists, Justina Okpanku also won the ‘2022 Africa Travel Women Awards’ representing the ‘Media’ category.
Okpanku, the Managing Editor of Justtours Media (Nigeria) also writes for a number of publications including THISDAY Newspaper and Daily Independentng as a contributor.
In the same vein, Lagos State Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs. Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf and South Africa’s Tourism Minister Sindiwe Sisilu, as well as the Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, Abimbola Akinajo, emerged top winners in the ‘Leadership’ category of the awards.
Other winners include Elizabeth Twumwa, CEO, Ghana Aviation; Maria Baryamujara, founder of COBATI; Iyaduni Gbadebo, Director of Sales & Marketing, Eko Hotels and Suites, Nigeria; Cecile Mambo, Managing Director of CMD Tourism and Trade, and Delphine Brew-Hammond, Director of Events and Operations, Miss Tourism Ghana as well as Yar Mayendit, Chairperson, Association of Tourism, South Sudan, and Charlotte Beauvoisin, Diary of Muzungu- Uganda.
The organiser of the event, Mr. Ikechi Uko, said the Africa Travel 100 Women awards will hold at Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos on October 31, 2022 as part of the 18th Akwaaba African Travel Market.
First held in 2017, the Africa Travel 100 Women Awards recognises African women who have excelled in travel and tourism.
