The Flowing Feathers Tourism Writing Competition is a Corporate Social Responsibility from Jands Travel Network.

It is common knowledge that domestic tourism has the potential to:

• Encourage Nigerians to celebrate their own values, attractions and cultural heritage.
• Attract investors, investments and economic growth.
• Support large scale employment
• Ensure the diversification of the economy

Jands Travel Network sees the necessity to create a platform – The Flowing Feathers Tourism Writing Competition, to educate the younger generation and future leaders on the importance of and issues associated with Nigerian domestic tourism

The competition comes as an extra-curricular platform to inspire, encourage and prepare the children to play their part as future nation builders, as well as to arouse the interests of children and parents alike on the tourism profession and the travel and tourism business.

 It also aims to rekindle the lost writing and reading culture in Nigerian children, and create an avenue for candidates to be innovative, analytical and able to evaluate outcomes.

Last year’s edition saw the beginning of an era where tourism is being introduced to the younger generation and their schools as a different subject from what they are used to. It generated questions and debates on why tourism is not and should not be part of the departments and subjects in our schools, as it is obvious that Nigeria is an economy in dire need of diversification.

TOPIC FOR 2022 EDITION

IF YOU ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE AUTHORITY, WHAT LAWS WOULD YOU PUT IN PLACE TO HELP PRESERVE NIGERIA’S CULTURE AND TOURISM?

TIMETABLE

April 29^th  – Official launch of the 2022 Tourism Writing Competition. This will include the press release and robust media presence at the occasion.

June 30^th  – Deadline for the submission of entries (essay or poem)

July 4^th  – Judges begin their vetting to produce the best entries.

July 29^th  – Prize giving and awards day.

PROCEDURE

1. Get and fill the forms from Fidelity bank locations in Abia, Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi and Anambra states, the state ministry of culture and tourism, state coordinators across the South-East or the online form.
2. Write your essays according to your categories and submit it in handwritten format before the deadline – June 30^th making sure that your profile in the entry corresponds with that of the form and choose the right category. Your entries can be submitted to your collection location or scanned to flowingfeathers1@gmail.com
3. Participants will defend their entries either physically or virtually, for the judges to come up with the best, so, all information on the forms should be filled correctly.
4. Participants will be expected to attend the prize giving event.
5. No entries will be entertained after the deadline.