Socio-Economic Impact of Tourism Support Services on Inhabitants of Calabar South Lga, Cross River State

Student: Gift Edibi Timothy (Project, 2025)
Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Cross Rivers University of Technology, Calabar, Cross Rivers State

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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background to the study
Tourism over the years has proven to be a surprisingly strong
and resilient economic activity and a fundamental contributor to economic growth of nations by generating billions of dollars in exports and creating millions of jobs. Acknowledging these facts, many
developing and developed countries of today rely on tourism as an option for sustainable development of their nations. Tourism industry has now grown to be the world's largest industries and one of its fastest
growing economic sectors. The recent publication of World Travel and
Tourism Council (WTO, 2014), showed that in 2013, travel and tourism's total contribution to the global economy rose to US 17
trillion, about 9.5 per cent of global GDP, not only outpacing the wider economy but also growing faster than other significant sector such as financial and business services, transport and manufacturing and its total contribution to employment was nearly 266 million jobs about 8.9 percent of world employment. The sustained demand for travel and

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socio-economic impact tourism support services inhabitants calabar south cross river
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