January 30, (THEWILL) – TThe Cross River State Government has unveiled its plan to host an African Music Festival on this year’s Saint Valentine’s Day at Calas Vagas.
Calas Vegas is one of the tourism destinations developed by the state government and located in a virgin island across the Calabar channel.
The Commissioner for Tourism, Eric Anderson, disclosed this in Calabar after playing host to members of the Correspondents Chapel led by Eme Offiong.
Anderson said for the current year no new injection would be made in the state’s tourism calendar and existing events would be sustained.
He also disclosed that the carnival will take place this year and it is one of the avenues the state government hopes to use in finishing strong.
“For 2022, we do not intend to create new tourism products because we have sufficient products we need to maintain.
“This year we are only going to observe the valentine’s day as a new injection and that will be the only injection we will have for this year.
“On the valentine’s day we will have bikers parade, vintage car parade, car stunts, floating restaurant at the water and at night we are going to have an African Music Festival at Calas Vegas.
“There will be a carnival this year and this will be our last festival as a government and of course the government wants to end strong and that is one of the avenues we want to end strong in tourism”, he said.
On the ranch resort, he said there has been a lot of improvements and some time last year he personally spent one week at the ranch to oversee the upgrade in facilities.
On Qua falls, he said it has also renovated, all the rails down has been fixed and we also created another route down so that tourists can have proper view of the water.
He said the Qua Falls in Agbokim emerged one of the most visited sites in the country during the pandemic year.
Earlier, the chair person of the Correspondents Chapel, Eme Offiong of Voice of Nigeria pledged to partner with the ministry to develop the tourism sector of the state.
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