Abstract
This paper describes the conceptualization of Old Oyo National Park seeking an intervention for improve collaboration and communication internally across functional and departmental boundaries through the use of ICT. Eighteen natural and cultural heritage resources of ecotourism values were indentified in the Park, in addition to the nine art and craft practiced in these communities and eight annual cultural events. A detail assessment of the level of development of the cultural and natural features in the Old Oyo National Park was carried out based on the three component of tourist destination, viz; attraction, amenities and accessibility. The gridded map of the locations of these ecotourism features was also presented. An e-tourism designed for the park has the basic component of catalog of product, shopping cart, and check out, payment gateway (payment processing network), customer account, internet merchant account and business account. Customers can browse the catalog of tourism product and shops cart it. The gateway component accepts credit card details and sends to the payment gateway for authorization on the premise of adequate security using the SSL primitives. Funds are reserved into the customer account and later transfer to merchant account, and then to the business account of the park.
Highlights
The study of e-commerce in the tourism industry has emerged as a frontier area for information technology
There is the need to develop a framework on using information communication technology (ICT) to enhance the management of the natural and cultural heritage resources of Old Oyo National park for ecotourism development
Funds are reserved into the customer account and later transfer to merchant account, and to the business account of the park
Summary
The study of e-commerce in the tourism industry has emerged as a frontier area for information technology. There is the need to develop a framework on using ICT to enhance the management of the natural and cultural heritage resources of Old Oyo National park for ecotourism development This will involve the design and development of an ecommerce site and the presentation of gridded digital maps of the park using the Global Positioning System and Geographic Information System Techniques to assist tourists have virtual access to these resources from any part of the world (Fig. 2). A Database of the anthropological, anthropogenic, natural, cultural, archeological and historical heritage resources in and around Old Oyo National Park is being developed and will be useful to update the Ecological Management Plan of the Park and develop Ecotourism Management Plan, which will be of tremendous economic benefits to the management of the park, the host communities, National Park Service, Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation and Nigerian Government
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