IMPACT OF TOURISM FACILITIES DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN CROSS RIVER STATE: A CASE STUDY OF MARINA RESORT, CALABAR SOUTH L.G.A.
Abstract
Most developed nations like Brazil and Cuba built their economy on the basis of developing tourism, enhancing promotion with world class facilities. However, this study in a bid to establish the relationship between tourism facility development and environmental sustainability, five objectives were defined and one testable hypothesis. Four hundred questionnaires were distributed across 9 different tourism centres in Calabar metropolis and hypothesis was tested using the Pearson Product Moment correlation technique. At the end of the findings from the available information gotten a strong positively significant relationship between tourism facility development and environmental sustainability in tourism centre in Calabar metropolis. The alternative was accepted with a strong significant value of 2.33. Furthermore, the study recommended that government should embark on timely maintenance and replacement of tourism facilities, and also recommends government expansion of the tourism sector by reinvesting tourism proceeds into the sector so as to enhance continuity. However, the author concludes that tourism facility development is a pre-requisite for continuity and sustainability of the sector.
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