By Oyeniyi Esan
The Country Director, Asia Africa Chamber of Commerce (AACC), Erelu Funmi Rotiba, has revealed that the chamber is set to promote the intercontinental business relationship between Africa and Asia through tourism exchange programs, activities and measures in order to forge economic integration.
Erelu Rotiba in an interactive session with journalists, tourism stakeholders and professionals at the Imperial House of Culture, Ibadan, Oyo State recently pointed out “The chamber aims to establish an intercontinental business relationship between Asian and African countries, by promoting trade and investment in order to create a smooth networking system of global supply chains.”
She added “The focus is to create a conducive environment for intra-African trade of goods and services for Asian consumption and vice versa; placing into consideration the population of the two largest continents in the world as a measure for economic growth and development. We are ready to engineer continuous improvements and provide solutions to the present interruption in the global chain supply affecting the smooth exportation and importation of goods and services.”
Rotiba assures all business stakeholders in need of the international market, “we are definitely in a time of great changes. A new order is here for the sake of economic emancipation of an average African, and the continent at large. We mean business, especially for those with marketable products. It will be no business as usual, but business unusual because of several measures in place to ensure smooth movement. The true focus of the chamber is to stoke Afro-Asiatic tourism traffic for the economic transformation of Africa. ’’
