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The Impact Of Tourism In Alleviating Poverty In Nigeria
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1.4 RESEARCH QUESTION
a. Does tourism provide foreign exchange earnings?
b. Does tourism bring about employment to the people?
c. Does tourism encourage improvement of facilities e.g hotels, good roads and other social infrastructures?
d. Does tourism contribute to environment and social improvements?
e. Does tourism helps in conserving wildlife?
f. Does tourism help to utilizer areas of low and unreliable rainfall which are not attractive to farmers?
1.5 STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS
In order to provide a guide to this study, the following hypotheses were formulated.
Ho:
Tourism cannot alleviate poverty with economic gain through the
creation of full employment or the development of SME opportunities
through sales to tourism business or to tourist.
Hi: Tourism can
alleviate poverty with economic gain through the creation of full part
time employment or the development of SME opportunities through sales to
tourism business or to tourist.
Ho: Tourism cannot alleviate poverty
through other livelihood benefits such as access to portable water,
roads which bring benefits to poor producers through, for example
improved access markets, improved health or education etc.
Hi: Tourism can alleviate poverty through other livelihood benefits such as access to portable water, roads.
Ho:
Tourism can alleviate poverty through opportunities and capacity for
engagement in decision – making in order that the poor are able to
improve their livelihood by securing better access to tourist and
tourism enterprises.
Hi: Tourism cannot alleviate poverty through
opportunities and capacity for engagement in decision making in order
that the poor are able to improve their livelihood by securing better
access to tourist and tourism enterprises.
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
All
those that may be interested and willing in carrying out further
research/ study on poverty alleviation through tourism with references
to Nekede zoo Owerri Imo state.
Tourism destination in Nigeria
will also derive great assistance from this research work in
determining how to manage and fully developed in African and Nigeria to
be precise as it in the developed countries of the world.
The
research work tries to outline ways of minimizing and ensuring that the
readers understand very well the impact of tourism to poverty
alleviation. In another related development, tourism offer job
opportunities to individuals. Therefore I the researcher found out that
this project work is important to readers because it talks more one
tourism development and what it has contributed to the development of
the economy.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Tourism is one the largest and fastest growing industries in the world. It is an increasingly important source of income, employment and wealth in many countries. Its rapid expansion has, however, had detrimental environmental (and Scio- cultural) impacts on many regions. In this research I examine the main economic benefits and environmental impacts of tourism and review the development of the international sustainable tourism agenda. While much of international tourism activity takes place wit ... Continue reading---
