Our Plans For Tourism In Rivers State—Rivers ArtCCESS 2021 – Rivers-state’ Year of Arts Culture Creative Economy for Sustainable Society
Celebrating the Colours of our Rich and Progressive Diversities to grow a Sustainable Tourism Economy in Rivers State has always been the strategic vehicle of growth that drove the operations of the Rivers State Tourism Development Agency (RSTDA) in the year 2020. The Agency embraced a forced perspective, driven by strategic incentives of the Fourth Industrial Age Tool Kits to rethink, reposition and E-NNovate beyond physical tourism infrastructures, collaborating competitively to deploy Digital Culture and Heritage Assets to re-engineer a Tourism Economy beyond the ‘New Normal’ of pandemic ridden economies.
Our Plans For Tourism In Rivers State
Rivers ArtCCESS 2021 is a Smart Sustainable Culture and Creative Economy Driven Tourism Marketplace framework that harmonizes 260 Heritage Commodities to drive Domestic Tourism for wealth creation and employment generation across the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State.
Rivers ArtCCESS is anchored on Strategic Global Arts, Culture, Creativity and Innovation Impact Policies that seek to shape humanity, drive diversity through Cultural Integration and Social Inclusive Growth for sustainable development; the African Union Year of Arts Culture and heritage 2021 and the United Nations International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development.
River ArtCCESS 2021Program
Sustainability, Opportunity, Creativity, Diversity
Rivers ArtCCESS 2021 programs are smart mobile-Omni-channel Heritage, Creative Arts and Culture Tourism Festivals that connect over 2.6M people across 26 ethnic groups in River State to celebrate 260 Cultural Commodities to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals through diversity driven opportunities for Wealth Creation, Employment Generation and A Green Economy beyond Oil
- RACH Fest: Rivers Arts, Culture and Heritage Festival
Theme: Leveraging the Arts, Culture and Heritage Assets to Build the Rivers We Want
Rivers Arts, Culture and Heritage Festival is curated to jumpstart the Rivers Year of Arts, Culture, Tourism and Heritage 2021 to celebrate the African Union Year of Arts, Culture and Heritage 2021 featuring 260 Heritage Commodities across the 26 ethnic groups of the state
- RCESS Fest | Rivers creativity economy for Sustainability Society festival
Theme: Connecting Creative Economy to Accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals
The Rivers Creativity for Sustainability Festival is designed to activate the UN Year of Creativity for Sustainability 2021, connecting over 260,000 Creatives across 26 ethnic groups to celebrate Creativity and Innovation for Social Impact Development across Rivers State
Our Plans For Tourism In Rivers State
- Rivers Gender ArtCCESS Festival
Theme: Let Her Create the Future She Wants
Celebrating SDG 5, the first Gender ArtCCESS Festival in Africa is structured to empower Rivers women of the Arts, Culture and Creative Economy to drive a sustainable society and promote Gender Equality, Equity and Entrepreneurship across the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State
- TribeRiverian Festival: Lingual Heritage Festival
Theme: Creating Opportunities through Cultural Integration
The TribeRiverian Festival is the first mobile celebration of Tribes and Languages of Rivers State to deepen diversity, ethnic integration and cultural innovation for socio-economic development.
- 26 Weeks
- 26 Ethnic Groups
- 26 Tribe-Street Festivals
- 26 Culture Hubs
- RiVDUBex: Rivers–Dubai Expo Festival
Theme: Color Me Rivers State
The River-Dubai Expo Festival is a Rivers Heritage Marketplace Festival featuring the 260 Cultural Colours of the state in partnership with the DCTM to celebrate the Global Cultural Integration Expo as Dubai hosts the World Expo in October2021.
- PACCExpo
Theme: Accelerating Africa Diversity Dividends through the Creative Economy
The Pan-Africa Culture and Creative Economy Expo is a Socio-Culture Impact Festival in partnership with the Pan-African Centre for Empowerment; an African–American Cultural Innovation Investment organization to celebrate the Culture and Creative Artisans of African Descent in over 100 countries. RSTDA has the exclusive right to host the largest gathering of Pan-African Creatives in the world
- TouRivarian Marketplace Summit
Theme: Rivers Tourism Means Business
The TouRivarian Marketplace Summit is a 5 day BIGG-STEP Tourism Investment Marketplace convention curated to empower the Organized Private Sector to deploy Revenue Based Finance Mechanism Investments to mobilize progressive and profitable Tourism Finance Partnership for the development of the 260 Culture and Heritage Tourism Assets of Rivers Beyond Oil.
Yibo Koko
DG/CEO
Rivers State Tourism Development Agency (RSTDA)
