Cultural Tourism in Nigeria
INDIVIDUAL ESSAY
Essay Title: Cultural tourism festivals and events in Nigeria
Name: Deborah Vincentsdaughter
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents INTRODUCTION 3 Cultural tourism 3 LITERATURE REVIEW 4 Festivals and events 4 Cultural festivals in Nigeria 5 Festivals and impacts 6 Igue festival 6 New yam Festival (Iri ji Ohuru/iwa ji 7 Gbagyi Gbodogun 8 CRITICAL ANALYSIS 11 CONCLUSION 11 REFERENCES 12
INTRODUCTION
Tourism generally has to do a lot with social activities. A typical example is the adventure tourism which is a type of tourism that provides an opportunity for people to challenge nature and everything about it. This type of tourism provides opportunities for activities such as: Hand gliding and Para sailing which are grouped under hard adventure; while hot sports and wild life are grouped under soft adventure. The chambers dictionary has defined tourism as the events of tourists and those who make it available for them. Tourism as defined in a book says that it is the study of how good human beings can cope when they are away from their normal habitats, of the industry that meet his needs and lastly of the impacts that both he and the industry have on the host’s in such ways; sociocultural, economic and physical environments. (Jafari 1977) Getting information from another book about tourism, differences in the definitions of tourism could be traced to the following approaches; Economic, technical and holistic. 1. Economic definitions emphasizes on the business area of tourism, but if it were to be criticized by leiper(1979) that it fails to even discuss about the tourist and his motivations or limitations in travelling. 2. Technical approach to the definition of tourism aims at mainly the governments and the tourism industry organizations that want to monitor the size and other important issues about tourists markets. 3. In 1942 holistic type defined tourism as “the sum of the phenomena and relationships
Essay Title: Cultural tourism festivals and events in Nigeria
Name: Deborah Vincentsdaughter
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents INTRODUCTION 3 Cultural tourism 3 LITERATURE REVIEW 4 Festivals and events 4 Cultural festivals in Nigeria 5 Festivals and impacts 6 Igue festival 6 New yam Festival (Iri ji Ohuru/iwa ji 7 Gbagyi Gbodogun 8 CRITICAL ANALYSIS 11 CONCLUSION 11 REFERENCES 12
INTRODUCTION
Tourism generally has to do a lot with social activities. A typical example is the adventure tourism which is a type of tourism that provides an opportunity for people to challenge nature and everything about it. This type of tourism provides opportunities for activities such as: Hand gliding and Para sailing which are grouped under hard adventure; while hot sports and wild life are grouped under soft adventure. The chambers dictionary has defined tourism as the events of tourists and those who make it available for them. Tourism as defined in a book says that it is the study of how good human beings can cope when they are away from their normal habitats, of the industry that meet his needs and lastly of the impacts that both he and the industry have on the host’s in such ways; sociocultural, economic and physical environments. (Jafari 1977) Getting information from another book about tourism, differences in the definitions of tourism could be traced to the following approaches; Economic, technical and holistic. 1. Economic definitions emphasizes on the business area of tourism, but if it were to be criticized by leiper(1979) that it fails to even discuss about the tourist and his motivations or limitations in travelling. 2. Technical approach to the definition of tourism aims at mainly the governments and the tourism industry organizations that want to monitor the size and other important issues about tourists markets. 3. In 1942 holistic type defined tourism as “the sum of the phenomena and relationships
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