TOURISM INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT GENERATION IN CALABAR MUNICIPALITY, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA

This research work examines tourism industry and employment generation in Calabar Municipality. Tourism industry which includes the hotels, resorts, airlines, travel agencies, tours operators and business that cater for travelers employ several people to provide tourist services at the various destinations. Tourism industry therefore has become the master employer of labour work over But quite too often jobs provided by the industry are seasonal, low skilled, low paid jobs and may not benefit the indigenes of the most community as they are privately owned. Thus, this research work seeks to examine the number of indigenes employed by the tourism industry as well as the number of indigenes who occupy managerial positions. The data for this research well generating using questionnaires that were administered to do tourism industries in Calabar Municipal Council Area. Using the Pearson's product moment correlation, hypotheses were tested and the findings of the analyses proved that tourism industry had no significance effect in the employment generation in Calabar Municipality, as very few of the indigenes were employed and few occupied managerial position. It was recommended that both government and private individuals should create awareness of the importance for the youths of Calabar Municipal council Area to acquire the skills needed for these jobs. In conclusion, it is also important for a good tourism policy which will emphasize.