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Rural Tourism Entrepreneurship as Strategy for Economic Development in Nigeria
Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development
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Rural Tourism Entrepreneurship as Strategy for Economic Development in Nigeria
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Aderemi Ayinla, Alarape; Institute for Entrepreneurship and Development Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State
Adeola, Ajayi; Department of Public Administration, ObafemiAwolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State |
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Economics
Entrepreneurship, Economic Development, Rural Tourism, Tourism Destinations Tourism Potentials Tourism and Development |
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| Description |
Rural tourism entrepreneurship is a tourist industry which revolutionizes businesses and prompting economic development across the globe. It encompasses huge range activities, natural or man-made attractions, amenities and facilities, transportation, marketing and information systems. It is also an important export for 83% of the developing countries and the main export for one third of them. In 2000, developing countries recorded 142.6 million international arrivals an increase of 95% compared to the figures of 1990.However, only developing countries with effective natural and man-made tourism supporting and enhancing infrastructure have been able to develop their tourism sector and seize the attendance advantages. Rural areas of Nigeria possess some distinctive peculiarities which can be transformed into attractive tourist centers.In spite of all these, rural tourism areas are still faced with myriad problems which include poor finance inadequate awareness and education, lack of progress in developing the rural of progress in developing the rural tourism potentials inadequate legislation, insecurity, entrepreneurial inertness, over-dependent on oil among others. This paper focuses on the impact and challenges of rural tourism entrepreneurship as strategy for economic development in Nigeria. It reviews literature rural tourism, tourism entrepreneurship potentials and classifications of Nigerians tourism potential’s destinations. The paper concludes that Nigeria Government should encourage rural based tourism entrepreneurship development by addressing the challenges facing rural tourism entrepreneurship in the country.
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Scholedge R&D Center
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2016-11-26
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article — |
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application/pdf
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http://www.thescholedge.org/index.php/sijmd/article/view/341
10.19085/journal.sijmd030901 |
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Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development ISSN 2394-3378; Vol 3, No 9 (2016); 164-175
2394-3378 |
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eng
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http://www.thescholedge.org/index.php/sijmd/article/view/341/420
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Nigeria
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Copyright (c) 2016 Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development ISSN 2394-3378
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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