Sport Tourism And Performance In Industry In Imo State

Sport Tourism And Performance In Industry In Imo State

Abstract

This study was carried out on the examination of sport tourism and the performance of the tourism assiduity using Imo State as a case study. To achieve this, thee significant exploration objects were formulated. The check design was espoused and the simple arbitrary slice ways were employed in this study. The population size comprises of staff of the named tourism centers and hospices in Imo State. In determining the sample size, the experimenter accessibly named 67 repliers while 60 were entered and 60 were validated. tone- constructed and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected and validated questionnaires were anatomized using frequence tables and mean scores. The result of the findings reveals that sport tourism helps to boost the profitability of tourism assiduity; sport tourism contributes to the overall performance of the tourism assiduity. The findings also revealed that sport sightseer patronizes sightseer centres in their sport destination. In regard to the findings, the study recommends that there should be good programs- frame in Nigeria towards the development of pastoral and civic tourism; and indigenous and original crafts should be encouraged among Nigeria youths especially in specialized seminaries, so as to have further tourism lodestones for sport sightseer.

Keywords Sport, Tourism, Tourism Industry.

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of Study

Encyclopedically, tourism has come an important policy tool for community and indigenous development in numerous developed and developing countries. Tourism also has significant implicit to impact and change the use of natural and artistic coffers in a number of regions. It provides new openings, employment and profitable benefits to original communities and promotes the growth of the hospitality assiduity. Tourism is an important sector for profitable development in a country. People generally travel for numerous reasons. Sport is one of the important reasons for promoting sightseer assiduity. With the development of the society and enhancement of people living standard, sports tourism gradationally becomes one of the briskly growing diligence. People travelling to lodge in the hostel, stint around the sport position, share and watch sports event dates back to the ancient Olympic Games( Higham J, 2010). Patronage can come in the form of guests, other businesses or companies; it can also be seen as business or exertion handed by a patron. The patron in tourism environment refers to the sightseer who patronizes a destination. The installations, lodestones and hype of a destination affect its patronage. Low patronage of a destination affects the operation of tourism centers, destination installations and the morale of workers who depend on the tourism assiduity for their employment and food. The relationship between sports and tourism in the ultramodern world is symbiotic. Sports tourism profitable development was the debatable content in world last two decades. Tourism is travelling for generally recreational or rest, business purposes or the provision of services to support this rest trip. According to the World Tourism Organization, excursionists define as people who” travel to and stay in places outside their usual terrain for further than twenty- four hours and not further than one successive time for rest, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an exertion remunerated from within the place visited ”( World Tourism Organization,). Tourism is an important sector of profitable development in a country, due to the income generated by the consumption of goods and services by excursionists, the levies levied on businesses in the tourism assiduity, and the occasion for employment in the service diligence associated with tourism. These service diligence include transportation services similar as aircraft, voyage vessels, and hacks, accommodation, hospices, caffs , bars, and entertainment venues, and other hospitality assiduity services similar as gyms and resorts. Peoples generally travel for numerous reasons similar as jobs, Business, rest, Religion Conditioning, Medicine. Sport is another important reason for tourism. With the development of the society and the enhancement of peoples’ living standard, sports tourism gradationally becomes one of the most important corridor of the popular healthy life and also it’s one of the fastest growing request parts in the tourism assiduity. World tourism advents are projected to grow at 4, 3 present per time and reach1.6 billion by 2020( Simon Hudson, 2009). One of the briskly growing areas contributing to these stunning statistics is sports tourism. During the last two decades, Sports tourism development was the one of the main debatable content in the world. International Olympic Committee and World Tourism associations had given attention to develop the sports tourism. Sports tourism is the trip accepted for the purpose of engaging in particular sports events similar as Cricket World mug, Olympic Games, SAARC games, Foot ball competitions. According to Canadian Tourism Commission, who travel further than 80 km or stay overnight to attend, complete or else be involved in a sporting events, and visiting tourism centers within the position( Canadian Tourism Commission). Sports tourism isn’t only one of the simple forms of tourism, which is also a frugal field that makes the tourism assiduity and sports assiduity develop together. Sports tourism is just at its morning stage, but it’s adding and better to ameliorate the peoples’ participation knowledge and force a good occasion develop the tourism assiduity. Sports tourism request is an important aspect of the foundation for sports tourism development. Sports tourism base on the factors of provocation of excursionists and trip gests do sports sightseer seek in association with that they read at a given designation. It’s against this background that the study examine the sport tourism and the performance of the tourism assiduity.

Statement Of The Problem

Tourism is a socio-artistic miracle and it’s a quiet revolution that has gradationally swept through the world, in both developed and uninhabited nations. As an outside sign, humanity is beginning to reshape its station towards the conservation of the natural terrain, complete with creatures, shops, stonework, vines, mist, sound and indeed man himself, which are all active factors of the earth( Fred, 2014). People generally travel for numerous reasons. Sport is one of the important reasons for promoting hospitality assiduity. With the development of the society and enhancement of people living standard, sports tourism gradationally becomes one of the briskly growing diligence( Tsiotsu and Ratten 2010).

Objects Of The Study

Generally, this study examines the sport tourism and the performance of the tourism assiduity.

1. Examine whether sport tourism boost the profitability of tourism assiduity.

2. Determine whether sport tourism contributes to the overall performance of the tourism assiduity.

3. Determine whether sport sightseer patronize sightseer centres in their sport destination.

4. Ascertain the factors that affect sport sightseer patronage of tourism centers in Imo State.

exploration Question

The study will be guided by the following questions

Does sport tourism boost the profitability of tourism assiduity?

Does sport tourism contributes to the overall performance of the tourism assiduity?

Does sport sightseer patronize sightseer centres in their sport destination?

What are the factors that affect sport sightseer patronage of tourism centers in Imo State?

Significance Of The Study

This study will explore the benefactions of the sports tourism in the profitable development of Nigeria an through tourism patronage. It’s intended to be of interest to policy makers, hospitality assiduity drivers and companies who would find the study veritably essential as a companion in structuring the hospitality sector make it a contributor to public profitable development, putting all the necessary installations in place to enhance effectiveness and also increase the position of their benefactions. This study would also be of immense benefit to scholars and scholars who are interested in developing farther studies on the subject matter.

Compass Of The Study

The study focuses on the sport tourism and the performance of the tourism assiduity. The study will further examine whether sport tourism boost the profitability of tourism assiduity, determine whether sport tourism contributes to the overall performance of the tourism assiduity, determine whether sport sightseer patronize sightseer centres in their sport destination, and ascertain the factors that affect sport sightseer patronage of tourism centers in Imo State. The repliers for this study will be attained from three named tourism centers and two hospices in Imo State.

Limitation Of The Study

In the course of carrying out this study, the experimenter endured some constraints, which included time constraints, fiscal constraints, language walls, and the station of the repliers. still, the experimenter were suitable to manage these just to insure the success of this study.

Functional Description Of Terms

Tourism is defined as the entire conditioning of person( s) travelling to and staying in a place( s) outside their usual terrain for not further than one successive time for rest, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an exertion remunerated from within the place visited( UNWTO, 2010).

Sports tourism refers to travel which involves either observing or sharing in a sporting event while staying piecemeal from the excursionists’ usual terrain.