Rivers State Ministry of Culture and Tourism
# Rivers State Ministry of Culture and Tourism

The Rivers State Ministry of Culture and Tourism is a government ministry of Rivers State, Nigeria entrusted with the formulation and implementation of policies to promote culture and tourism with a view to stimulating economic growth in the state. The ministry's mandate is to "Put in place programmes and events that attract international, national and local tourists."

## Vision

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism states that its vision (and mission) is:

   To promote the diverse cultural heritage of Rivers’ people and to identify and develop the tourism potentials of the State as a means of job creation, wealth generation as well inculcating pride and dignity in our local art work and cultural values. This is to establish and brand Rivers State a choiced destination for cultural tourism beside oil and gas.

## Objectives

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has the following objectives:

* To draw immediate attention to tourism development in Rivers State.
* To provide leisure and recreational faculties in the local government areas of the state.
* To reawaken interest and active participation of all stakeholders in the development of Rivers State culture towards economic well-being of the people.
* To identify the cultural diversity and heritage of the state for proper management and utilization.
* To regulate, categorize, standardize and control hotels, restaurants, fast foods, travel agencies, four operators and other tourism related enterprises.
* To provide enabling environment for the development of traditional small scale/cottage enterprises for domestic and export promotion.
