The vision of the Ministry is to position Culture and Tourism as a leverage for economic growth and development.

The Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation is to promote the nation’s rich cultural heritage through identification, development, marketing of the diverse cultural and tourism potentials. It shall formulate and implement policies aimed at diversifying the economy and placing it on the path of sustainable growth and development.

Part of our core mandate is to promote Culture and Tourism as a foreign exchange earner, income distributor, major employer of labour, a catalyst for rural development/poverty reduction and fostering peace. Thus, through cultural tourism, the Ministry will undertake practical steps towards harnessing the nation’s cultural and tourism potentials with the aim of ensuring that tourism contributes a minimum of 4% of the GDP at any time in point as against the current level of 0.95% of our GDP. Since its creation, the Ministry has witnessed a burst of activities leading to notable achievements which has earn accolade for Nigeria worldwide.