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How to manage tour groups and make tourists safe during Covid - 19 By Anago James Akeem Osho

Practicing social distancing and the use of face masks On the subject matter of managing tour groups and making tourists or visitors safe at tourist destinations or safe when they consume tourist products, it is inevitable for the methods of tourism operation not to be the same again or at least not to be the same for a period of time untill general activities return to normal. How do we make tourists safe? Tourists and visitors can only be safe when they are managed well. How can groups be managed well? The most simple method is to strictly adhere to social distancing aside other logistics of managing groups. I will share some methods on this page. The dream and hope of every tourism worker is for travel and tours to fully reopen in earnest and the evil covid - 19 to be a fairy tale with a happy ending. Anago James Akeem Osho curating international tourists in an open space before covid - 19 I thought it would take a long while for international tours to return again after

Borrowed words: Itage - Yoruba, Etagere - French, Stage - English By Anago James Akeem Osho

Itage, pronounced e-t-ar-g-eh! Is a Yoruba word of French origin. It means stage in the Yoruba sense. Even the word stage in English is of French origin (estage), derived from Etagere. According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate dictionary, 11th edition; ETAGERE is a piece of furniture consisting of a piece of open shelves for displaying small objects and sometimes having an enclosed cabinet at the base. In Yorubaland, the word Itage (from the French word Etagere) means a raised platform where activities take place e.g, acting, dancing, singing, display of products, etc. for the audience to view. The word etagere became more popular in 1840. The trans Atlantic slave trade and the relationships between the French and Yoruba Artists would have facilitated the word in the land. Theatre, art, and culture is inseparable in Yorubaland. In fact, Yoruba epistemology and culture survived the trans Atlantic slave trade. In the Americas, where enslaved Africans of Yoruba origin were tak

Tour guides in tourism hierarchy as Anago Osho trains Epe Tour Guides

It is great to know that despite Covid - 19 epidemic, tourism enthusiasts remain undaunted and hopeful. This was the character depicted at the tourism and tour guide training at Epe in Lagos State.  Tour Guide students and their trainer, Anago James Akeem Osho  Despite the absolute effect of covid - 19 on tourism, it still remains the hope of many communities for employment opportunities, nature and heritage conservation, as they work the epidemic to be a thing of the past by practising social distancing and other covid - 19 measures and wish normal activities to resume.  During the Tour Guide training at Epe Epe is one of the most popular historical towns in Lagos State - Nigeria. The people of the town took advantage of Covid - 19 experience to identify the tourism potentials and attraction sites in their community and the experience was life changing according to the participants. The training was facilitated by Anago James Akeem Osho Adventures. It was a collaboration