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Achieving the millennium development goals: issues and options for the Nigeria's tourism industry

Many countries have experienced how tourism and related recreation activities can help to increase and diversity their economic bases, particularly in rural areas (Fawson, Thilmany, and Keith 1998). Several empirical studies have also documented that tourism has direct, indirect and induced impacts on economic development (Slee, Farr, and Snowdon, 1997). In fact, the industry is one of the most crucial tradable sectors in the world. Tourism is an effective weapon which can assist underdeveloped countries to achieve the 2015 anti – poverty MDGs. Globally the tourism industry has created 100, 00…