Late Fatima Garbati |
Chief Mrs Dupe Jemibewon |
Nigerian Tourism expert Ikechi Uko said
of Fatima Garbati, “she had decades of experience in the tourism and aviation
industry. She was a contributor to the bedrock of legislations and enacted
rules that have impacted positively to the sustainability of tourism
legislation in Nigeria and Africa.”
Garbati was a founding member of Nigeria
Association of Tour Operators (NATOP 1993), and a past president of the
association, she contributed to the creation of the Calabar Christmas carnival.
She also had a stint at Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, where she championed
consumers issues on tourism.
She represented Nigeria internationally
on several platform, also as Chairperson of IATA investigating panel for 10
(ten) years, representing English speaking west Africa as well as representing
Nigeria at the ‘Yamoussoukro Decision’ meetings until 1995.
‘Madam Tourism’ as some called her, was
buried last weekend in Lagos according to Muslim rites.
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