Assessment of Tourists Patronage of Jos Wildlife Park, Plateau State, Nigeria, between 2015-2020

Abstract

This research project aimed at studying the “Assessment of Tourist Patronage and challenges of Jos Wildlife Park, from 2015 – 2020”. By using descriptive survey method, data were collected through administration of one hundred questionnaires to respondents of four communities of which seventy (70) was retrieved. The following objectives; Challenges of tourists patronage to Jos wildlife park, negatives economic impacts of Jos wildlife park, management challenges of Jos wildlife park, were addressed. The data for tourists patronage to Jos wildlife park between 2015-2020 were analyzed using Time series statistics; the study shows that there was high tourist patronage in 2015(110,275) than 2016(87,700) and 2017(90,400) in Jos Wildlife Park respectively. The result also shows that, 2018 recorded the lowest tourist patronage of 85,187; 2019 recorded the highest tourist patronage of 131,810 tourists but it dropped to 120,462 in 2020. The researcher recommends that policies and facilities favorable to both the young and the old should be implemented in other to attract tourists of all age group. Insecurity and provision of perimeter square fence will go a long way to curb criminal activities in Jos wildlife Park.