Abstract
Nigeria has the potentialities required for tourism development such as natural features and land formations, manmade creativities and artifacts and divergent heterogeneous culture, yet the industry has not grown significantly. The statistical figures in table 1 are an empirical evidence to justify low patronage in terms of international tourists visit to Nigeria. The trend will likely continue downward if urgent and drastic measures are not taken by the Government and other stake holders in the industry to improve the security situation, provide tourism facilities and embark on aggressive image laundry strategy. The researcher conceptualize the potentials and challenges of Nigeria tourism sector as discussed in extent literatures and relevant industry reports and arrived at the conclusion that Government of Nigeria most exert political will and commitment to drive the tourism industry for the development of the economy.
Highlights
Tourism has become a phenomenon in both developed and developing economies across the globe, owing partly to bizarre of income generation, employment creation and poverty elimination potentials; and exploring development variables associated with the intangible products (Andriotis et al, 2008; Meng et al, 2008).Tourism as a displacement activity, involves being away from home on a temporary short-term visit to and stay at places of interest outside one’s domicile and work
Nigeria is blessed with a lot of tourist sites with the potentials of raising revenue for the nation but this is not maximally tasked as tourism in Nigeria is relegated to the background
The author attempted to x-ray some of the potentials and challenges of tourism development in Nigeria with a view to explore the poverty alleviation strength in tourism development for the overall benefits to the people
Summary
Tourism has become a phenomenon in both developed and developing economies across the globe, owing partly to bizarre of income generation, employment creation and poverty elimination potentials; and exploring development variables associated with the intangible products (Andriotis et al, 2008; Meng et al, 2008).Tourism as a displacement activity, involves being away from home on a temporary short-term visit to and stay at places of interest outside one’s domicile and work. The physical features include: natural, socio cultural events, ethno-historical and manmade attractions; while the intangibles are the destinations image and reputation, and the technological knowhow involved in tourism development (Apostolopous & Gayle, 2002).Tourism is perceived as a strategic medium for cultural and traditional heritage promotion to international arena thereby bringing the custodian country to international limelight (Meng et al, 2008)
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