Cultural Tourism and Sustainability in Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the impact of cultural tourism to sustainable development in Nigeria. As far back as the middle of 15th century, the world had started experiencing an up surge in travels. Throughout the cause of human history, people have travelled for the purposes of adventures, trade, religious conventions, war, economic gain and other compelling motivations. The study revealed that it is only when deliberate efforts is injected into improving cultural tourism endowment that the patronage of tourists into cultural sites can increase and invariably transform them into money – spinning tourism resorts, to ensure sustainable development. Conclusively, tourist receipts can impute on the development of the cultural sites in terms of income generation, employment generation, provision of more infrastructures to mention a few, as means for achieving improved tourism development hence, adequate sustainable development.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n14p649