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Badaki Aliyu Ajayi

National President

Hospitality & Tourism Management Association of Nigeria

Badaki Aliyu is a specialist in Hospitality and Tourism Industry with an uncommon passion for the profession and highly innovative, motivated and reliable team player.

Badaki’s performance in the profession earned him to become the National President of Hospitality and Tourism Management Association of Nigeria (HATMAN) and the Vice President (FCT) of Federation of Tourism Associations of Nigeria (FTAN).

Badaki is the Managing Director/CEO of Blissy Hospitality Services Ltd, managing chains of hotels across Nigeria.

Badaki Aliyu holds masters in Recreation and Tourism; Post Graduate Diploma in Management; Higher National Diploma in Hotel and Catering Management.

Wasiu Adeyemo Babalola

Managing Director for West Africa

Swiss International Hotels & Resorts

Wasiu Adeyemo Babalola is the Managing Director for West Africa and currently serves on the International Management Council (IMC) of Switzerland based Swiss International Hotels & Resorts. He is responsible for managing the chain’s manchise and management concepts and heads the firm’s business negotiation team for the region. He has been involved in the supervisions and operations standardization of hotels around the globe.

Babalola Wasiu Adeyemo, holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD) in Hospitality Management from Sherwood University, Glendale, California, USA; Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with further qualifications in Catering & Hotel Management, Marketing, Corporate Strategic Management, French among others. Dr. Babalola authored Hospitality Marketing Textbook and co-authored Glossary of Tourism, Travels & Leisure Terms Acronyms which won Silver at the Middle East & North Africa Award 2009 in Dubai, UAE. He also has many scholarly and professional articles in national and international journals to his credits.

Dr Babalola is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC), Nigerian Hotel & Catering Institute (FNHCI), and the Institute of Hospitality, UK (FIH). He is also a member of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), and Certified Board of Administrators of Nigeria (CBAN) among others.