TOURIST CENTERS A MEANS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA, ONDO STATE IN PERSPECTIVE
Abstract
Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries today, thus within the tourism industry events are getting more and more important. People have become more interested in events of all kinds, and will travel far away to participate in events that they find interesting. Events can offer various economical and social benefits for destinations, and therefore destination managers can and should employ events effectively in a tourism role. It has become widely accepted that every community and destination needs to adopt a long-term, strategic approach to event tourism thereby planning and development in order to realize the full tourism potential of events. This study was launched as a response to the lack of studies on how event tourism strategies are actually used in destinations. At the end of the study a model that describes how tourism is a means of economic development.
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