Hospitality Watch lauds Lagos Airport Hotel management

The only non-governmental organisation in the tourism sector, Hospitality Watch, has commended the management of Lagos Airport Hotel  for not only maintaining the tradition of the Oodua Group, but for ‘a comphrensive enhancement  of the facilities and notable improvement on the standard of service in the last 30 months.’

Hospitality Watch made this observation in its quarterly press release made available to the media, pointing out that “We have painstakingly observed and monitored the performance and modus operandi of the hospitality concern under the ambit of the Oodua conglomerate in the last few months. We are bold to say that the present management of Lagos Airport Hotel has within the present economic environment  proved to the world that its  competence and resourcefulness of thinking outside the box is not in doubt. For upon the application of our performance index via all the variables  and indices of operations, elements, market disability, paucity of hospitality fund and programmes, infrastructural enhancement, the management of Lagos Airport Hotel deserves commendation.”

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In the release signed by Otunba Adeoye Adewale Martins, Hospitality Watch   said“we are impressed for the  robust sense of resourcefulness which the present management under Mr Kayode Bakare has displayed at enhancing  the facilities of the great hospitality concern of the Oodua conglomerate with the revival of the casino which was abandoned and closed down before the management took over, the creation of an amusement park in Ikeja on a land which was lying fallow for many years, the renovation of 25 exotic rooms at the  Independence Block, the mounting of a marquee, an event centre on a parcel of waste land within the hotel, the construction of first class gymnasium manned by an Olympic, all these projects were not only financed by private concern, but all in the same way  generating revenue into the coffers of the company.

“We also observed  the Banquet Hall has not only been renovated after the fire incident, but has been put into use copiously and profitably by this management with the attendant  rehabilitation of the other  function halls  which are  now revenue generation  centres for Oodua.”

Hospitality Watch also commended  the Group Managing Director of Oodua Conglomerate, Mr Adewale Raji for being lucky to have the stock of the management of Lagos Airport Hotel as part of the subsidiaries he superintends adding that “such type of goal getting management deserves not only encouragement and support, but corporate commendation.”

The organisation then placed a demand on the Group Managing Director. “We are specially calling on the GMD, Mr Adewale Raji, to quickly fix whatever needs to be fixed at Lafia Hotel which has been closed down, to be reopened for business. The loss of closing down that magnificent asset of the Oodua Group is better imagined than felt.”