An organization has
launched a tourism-based competition. @TravelNextDoor
in two categories namely: travel writing and photo story oragnised the
competition for Nigerians between the ages of 15 and 35 years as part of its
contribution to promoting Nigeria’s domestic tourism,
The project Initiator,
Pelu Awofeso, hinted this in a statement and stated that “the subject for this
year’s competition is “My Community”, and it is specifically chosen to tie in
with the theme for this year’s World Tourism Day (September 27, 2014)
celebrations, which was tagged:“Tourism and Community Development”.
“Prizes for Photo Story
category are: 50,000 for first prize, N30, 000 for second prize and N20, 000
for third prize, plus 10 consolation prizes. Same prizes also go for travel
writing category.”
Entries for the
competition open on September 27, 2014 and closes on November 30, 2014;
finalists for both categories will be announced on December 7, 2014.
According to
Awofeso, the entries for both categories are to be focused on a community
(village, town, local government and city) located in Nigeria. “For the travel
writing category, entries should be a maximum of 1,000 (one thousand) words
(and must be previously unpublished at the time of submission for the contest.
For the photo story category, entries should be a maximum of five (5)
photographs of one community, and with resolution of 800kb and higher; all
submitted photographs must be duly captioned/described. Entries for both
categories will be judged by an in-house panel of experts comprising writers,
journalists and photographers, who will select the finalists from which the
winners will be chosen.
“Entries submitted shall not
be returned and will become the property of @TravelNextDoor. Participants
retain all copyrights to their works, but @TravelNextDoor reserves the rights
to edit, modify and publish same for public access on any of its platforms
(online and offline) and/ or that of its partners and sponsors, where
necessary. Entries for both categories may focus on any public structure or
space—a street, market, leisure park/garden, monument, festival, museum—that
qualifies as a tourist attraction. The judges’ decisions in both competition
categories shall be final. @TravelNextDoor will not entertain any
correspondence to this effect.”
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