The Chief Executive Officer, Gods Own Travel Agency, GOTA Voyages, Olanma Alvanis Ojukwu has emerged as the new President of the Consortium Touristes par Millions au Benin (CTM).
The goal is to bring a million tourists to the Benin to showcase the diverse tourism asset of the country.
The New President has been at the forefront of promoting the West African country as preferred tourist destination in the region.
Olanma has been able to impact so much in terms of travel and tourism service delivery to clients based on her series of trainings at American Airlines flagship University, Dallas, Texas.
She trained as an Air hostess at Aviation school Zaria in 1993, flew with Harka Air services, and other airlines in Nigeria, and came to Benin in 1999. She worked as a ticketing and reservation officer with the 1st Benin traveling agency, where she trained on Amadeus GDS until 2002.
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In 2003, she handled the ticketing department of the 1st Benin airline, until end of 2004 when she joined American Airlines.
She has worn many tourism and social life awards. In October 2016, GOTA voyage was one of the Akwaaba awardees of Top best travel companies in West Africa. On the 26th of May 2017, she won Ghana West African travel fair Weizo award, as one of the Top 100 tourism personalities in West Africa. Again on the 12th of September 2017, she was among the 100 women in tourism that received the best women in tourism award at Eko hotel, Lagos, Nigeria.
In December 2017, she received Change Agent Africa Award of Excellence on her leadership and support for youths in Benin. At the moment, she innovated the Discover Benin products she sells at her international trade fairs as her inbound package.