Mr Reuben Onah, an Abuja based tourism practitioner, has said that peace and stability were needed to develop tourism in Nigeria.
Onah spoke with the Newsmen on Monday in Abuja.
“Tourism, if based on the principles and good practices polished through ecotourism, can be a powerful tool to reduce the country’s dependence on oil,” he said.
Onah said that tourist attractions were dispersed over the country, but the roads leading to them were bad.
He also identified poverty and crime as factors hindering tourism development in Nigeria.
Onah said that political, religious and ethnic disturbances were also problems facing the growth of the country’s tourism industry.
He said that private and government sectors lacked skills to package tourism for local and international consumers.
Onah said that Nigeria had also been crippled by lack of accurate statistics on tourist arrival and departure over the years.
“For any country to create a substantial international tourism industry and measure its impact, there is need for a reliable mechanism for keeping records of inbound and outbound traffic”, he said.
Onah said that the country’s tourism sector should be developed to attract foreign tourists and investors.
He said that Nigeria was endowed with a wealth of rich and varied human, natural and cultural resources which were great assets to the country.
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Reporting by Babatunde Akinsola in Lagos, Nigeria.
