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{"title":"Assessment of Patronage of Tourist Sites in Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria","authors":"M. T. Olugbemi, D. O. Awotide, Naimot Olayinka Akinreti, G. B. Ogungbayi, O. I. Solana, Oluwafeyikemi Edith Bashorun, E. O. Akerele","doi":"10.7176/rhss/10-12-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/rhss/10-12-01","url":null,"abstract":"Poor patronage has been a subject of concern in hospitality industry and tourist attraction centres. This has impacted negatively on investment in the sector and overall economic development. The study therefore assessed patronage of tourist centres in Badagry Local Government area (LGA) of Lagos State. Nigeria. The study was based on primary data obtained in a cross-sectional survey of 240 respondents using multi-stage sampling technique in selected tourist centres in the LGA. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results revealed that majority of the respondents were between 26-30 years of age with an average of 36.2 years. Majority (62.1%) of the respondents were females, 71.1 percent were single and 41.7 percent had tertiary education. Furthermore, majority (60.8%) of the respondents had between 4-6 individuals as household members. The most visited tourist centre recreation purpose (62.1%), education purpose (87.1%), research purpose (84.2%), information purpose (72.1%) and sightseeing which accounted for 57.9%. Furthermore, inadequate funding of tourist by the government (95.8%), under developed tourism infrastructure (96.3%), low patronage (98.8%), limited understanding of tourism (95.0%) and bad road to tourism destination (98.3%) accounted for poor patronage. The study concluded that age, sex, marital status, education, major occupation, working experience and household size of the respondents were associated with their level of satisfaction in the study area. The study therefore recommended that tourism development should not be left alone for the state government, the Local government should make effort to support the state government to create enabling environment to the tourist centres. Keywords: tourists, tourist centres, patronage, level of satisfaction, Badagry DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/10-12-01 Publication date: June 30th 2020","PeriodicalId":121427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114549727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Community-Based Tourism and Destination Attractiveness: From Theory to Practice","authors":"Q. Vo","doi":"10.7176/jths/49-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jths/49-04","url":null,"abstract":"Community-based tourism (CBT) is an approach for tourism development that highlights the active participation of the community as a producer, owner, decision-maker in the tourism development of a destination. It has been considered as a sustainable tourism development orientation because it creates employment and increases income for local communities, making them more aware of the responsibility to preserve and enrich their local tourism resources. However, one of the crucial indicators of the sustainability of a CBT venture is commercial viability which is mostly influenced by destination attractiveness to the tourists. Firstly, this paper aims at identifying core attractive attributes from which CBT is frequently developed. A case-based study is carried out on thirty documented successful CBT practices in many parts of the world. From that, this paper points out five types of core attractive attribute of the destination on which CBT can be developed. Then, this paper will discuss how CBT can make a destination more attractive. Finally, the paper will suggest some actions for tourism policymakers of a CBT destination. Keywords: community-based tourism, destination attractiveness, sustainable tourism, core attractive attributes, community participation DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/49-04 Publication date: May 31 st 2020","PeriodicalId":121427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133699070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review on Potentials Resources and Challenges for Community Based Ecotourism Development in Ethiopia","authors":"Habib Bati Geda","doi":"10.7176/jths/49-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jths/49-01","url":null,"abstract":"Ecotourism is defined as responsible travel to natural areas that conserve the environment and improves the well-being of local community. Community-based ecotourism (CBE) is a form of ecotourism in which the community has substantial control over it, and the majority of the benefits remain in the community . Ethiopia is a country having enormous potential of ecotourism resource including cultural, historical, archaeological and natural resources which are ideal for the development of sustainable community-based ecotourism projects. There are some community-based ecotourism initiatives in different parts of the country such as Adaba -Dodola, Semen Mountains National Park, Wonchi Crater Lake and Adwa. The objective of this review paper was to examine the challenges and potentials for Community Based Ecotourism development in Ethiopia. The findings from this review showed that, Lack of cooperation among stakeholders conflicts of interest over resource usage and a severe lack of trained manpower in tourism professions as being the major obstacles that hinders community-based ecotourism development in Ethiopia. Keywords: Challenges, Potentials, community-based ecotourism, Ethiopia. DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/49-01 Publication date: May 31 st 2020","PeriodicalId":121427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133477393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of COVID19 on Tourism and Hotels of Ethiopia","authors":"Mahder kirose Berihe","doi":"10.7176/jths/49-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jths/49-02","url":null,"abstract":"As human starts to live in this world no one couldn’t face such type of challenging infection. The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was currently makes the world in big fear till today it have no vaccine the only way people can survive from this virus will be by  following and practicing health professional advice. Due to this virus countries were forced to close their borders and restrict their people to stay at home.  However some measures taken by countries were directly affect global economy especially tourism and hospitality were front line hit by this pandemic. As early estimation by UNWTO 2020 shows that in 2020 global international tourist arrivals might decline between 20% to 30%, down from an estimated growth of 3% to 4% forecast in early January 2020. This might translate into a loss of US$ 30 to 50 billion due to this travel restrictions. By seeing such catastrophe in the world and this sector was backbone for Ethiopia economy on earning foreign currency we need to assess impact of covid19 on tourism and hotels of Ethiopia and Finally this pandemic virus resulted in loss of countrys expenditure and high number of unemployment in the country. Keywords : Covid19, Hotels, Hospitality industry, Tourism DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/49-02 Publication date: May 31 st 2020","PeriodicalId":121427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121817457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of Employee Behavioral Factors on HACCP System Practices in Four and Five Star Rated Hotels in Nairobi County, Kenya","authors":"Chege Peninah Wanjiku, Miricho Moses, Gesage Bichage","doi":"10.7176/jths/48-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jths/48-05","url":null,"abstract":"Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) is a globally recognized food safety program advanced as a suitable program to minimize or eliminate the risk of food contamination. Successful implementation of HACCP System requires appropriate employee support. This study sought todetermine the influence of employee behavioral factors on HACCP system practices in four and five star-rated hotels in Nairobi County.A total of 255 hotel cooks and 33 chefs participated in the study. Analysis of the data utilized a set of descriptive statistics that provided detailed description of the study variables. To establish the statistical significance of the hypothesis,multiple linear regression analysis was conductedat 95 percent confidence level ( α = 0.05).The study established the existence of a statistically significant positive relationship between employee behavioral factors and HACCP system practices. Rrecommendations to hotel managers and other food production industry practitioners on enhancement of employee behaviour for effective HACCP system implementation are provided. Keywords: Employee Behavioral Factors, Food Safety, HACCP System Practices, Star- Rated Hotels DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/48-05 Publication date: April 30 th 2020","PeriodicalId":121427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120948496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Perception and Barriers of Peoples to Prevent Non-communicable Diseases Through Physical Activities: In the Case of Debre Markos and Fnoteselam Towns, Ethiopia","authors":"BirhanuAnjte, Awoke Tibebu","doi":"10.7176/jths/48-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jths/48-02","url":null,"abstract":"This study attempted to assess the habits and awareness of people towards physical exercise and its challenges and opportunities in the process of preventing selected NCD. To conduct this study the researchers delimited to DebreMarkos and Fnoteselam towns in different respective population groups and offices. The total sample sizes were2200 and a minimum of 600 sample respondents were taken by 10 % rule among this 470 for questionnaire and 130 for interview respondents. Each office has been selected by stratified sampling based on purposively expected availability of information and participants were categorized according to their demographic placement such as sex, age, education and habit of involvement then followed by simple random sampling techniques. In this research, the data collection tools employed questionnaires, interview with focus group discussion and document were analyzed in triangulation manner. The reason why the researchers chooses these methods is to get valuable and reliable data for outshined barriers of physical exercise, causes of prevention of disease (NCD) in the case of DebreMarkos and Fenoteselam towns. After that the questionnaires were administered and the data was collected, tailed, analyzed and logical conclusion and recommendation was reported.","PeriodicalId":121427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126699888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tourism Planning and Impediments to the Development of the Tourism Sector in Jordan","authors":"I. Al-Makhadmah, Khalid Mohammed Alarabaah, A. Fandi","doi":"10.7176/jths/48-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jths/48-04","url":null,"abstract":"The study aimed at identifying the level of tourism planning impediments to the development of the tourism sector in Jordan. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive analytical approach was used and a questionnaire was prepared to collect data after verifying their validity and stability. The study sample consisted of 500 employees (male/female) of the tourism sector (public and private) in Jordan. The results showed that the level of planning in the Jordanian tourism sector was at the average. While the level of impediments (environmental, organizational, administrative and media) to the development of the tourism sector in Jordan was high, Also, the results showed that the level of impediment (social, service and political) to develop the tourism sector in Jordan at the averaged. The most prominent of these impediments is poverty, which is one of the causes of environmental degradation to carry out destructive practices of the environment such as overgrazing, logging, and the lack of some entertainment projects at tourist facilities to attract tourists and families. Keywords: Tourism Planning, Impediments, Development, Tourism Sector, Jordan. DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/48-04 Publication date: March 31 st 2020","PeriodicalId":121427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121734145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Isuochi Artisans: Implications of Traditional Arts and Crafts of Isuochi People for Tourism Development in Abia State, Nigeria","authors":"Emeka E. Okonkwo, D. AgbasiereNnaemeka, Success Uduafor","doi":"10.20431/2455-0043.0601001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2455-0043.0601001","url":null,"abstract":"Man overtime has demonstrated good knowledge of her environment, and as such explores environmental resources in other to satisfy his needs. Isuochi is a community in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State that is known to possess skills, which remained distinct with them especially in traditional arts and crafts industries. These artisans are resourceful and productive and are now almost self-sufficient people. However, traditional arts and crafts are gradually going into extinction for two reasons. First, the youths often migrate to urban areas in search of white-collar jobs and thus, the art is left solely in the hands of aged and elderly persons. Secondary, imported and second-hand materials, as well as their cheapness, has made most people not to patronise local crafts. These factors among others gave rise to our interest in documenting the traditional arts and crafts of Isuochi. It is believed that if not documented, over time, the arts would only be remembered in myths and stories as in some African phenomenon. To successfully prosecute the study, ethnographic research method was employed. The researchers also used participant-as-observer. Here, the intents and purpose of the study were made known to local craftsmen work and relevant questions useful for achieving the research objectives were asked. Enlightened Isuochi elders were also interviewed. This paper, therefore, attempts to examine the traditional arts and crafts industries in Isuochi with a view to understanding their implications for tourism development. Keywords: Traditional arts and crafts, Isuochi artisans, Tourism development. DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/47-01 Publication date: February 29 th 2020","PeriodicalId":121427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129190964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Philosophical Dimension of the Islamic Illumination in Designing Qur'anic Manuscripts","authors":"F. E. Khasawneh","doi":"10.7176/jths/47-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jths/47-04","url":null,"abstract":"The philosophical dimension that was followed by the designers of Qu'ran manuscripts is considered in general a keystone in making the Qur'an scripts in the Islamic world. This moral philosophical dimension was later on deemed as principles for its design in manufacturing the sacred script. Accordingly, Illumination was used as an agent for building the art of writing, covering, lining as well as other arts that represent to main structural principles in making the Islamic script that is used as a profession for making codicology and in studying the material holder not to forget its symbolic dimension without taking account to the content. This study aimed at examining the philosophical dimension of using Islamic Illumination that is deemed as one of the main structural principles in designing the Islamic manuscript as well as its technology which is considered a field that distinguishes the research as one of the structural basis in designing the Islamic book, since Illumination as a feature to designing the Islamic book due of the beauty, design value and the sacred content. In this study, the researcher examines this philosophical and symbolic dimension as well as the principles and techniques which the craftsman used in using Illumination as designing principles to divide the page and space to add the Qur'anic sacred text in the Qur'anic scripts and introduces it in terms of using a sacred content. The researcher studies a sample of Qur'anic pages that refer to various Islamic ages, analyzed them, studied the design structure, the technique and the philosophical dimension of Illumination.The study concluded that Illumination was introduced to the Qur'anic script in order to create dignity and to show the greatness of God, not to forget the Illumination dominated on the Qur'anic script for the purposes of completeness, were it was introduced in the Qur'anic text to open a moral/ spiritual way for the one who works in designing the scripted Qur'an holly books. Keywords: The Philosophical Dimension, of Illumination, Script, The Sacred Art. DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/47-04 Publication date: February 29 th 2020","PeriodicalId":121427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125561650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction in Ghana’s Hotel Industry: A Case Study of Engineering Guest House – KNUST","authors":"Gloria Honny Asirifi, Elizabeth Kafui Senya","doi":"10.7176/jths/47-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jths/47-05","url":null,"abstract":"Background: It has been generally observed that service quality plays a very instrumental role in customer satisfaction. This study therefore, examined the impact of service quality on customer satisfaction in Ghana’s hotel industry, with Engineering Guest House (EGH) of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Methods: In pursuit of the stated objective, descriptive cross-sectional survey was adopted as the research design for this study. Data was sourced from both primary and secondary sources. Structured questionnaires which was the main research instrument was used to elicit information from the participants which comprised mainly of customers of EGH-KNUST who have been patronizing the services of the said entity over 2 years. ANOVA and t-statistics were used to test the hypothesis while regression analysis was used to analyzed the data. Results: The findings showed an R 2 value of 0.762 which reveals that service quality (using the SERVQUAL components) accounted for 76.2% of the variation in customer satisfaction. The f-statistics of 32.318 reveals that the model is statistically significant at 0.05 significant level. Conclusion: It was concluded that there was a significant relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction at EGH-KNUST, hence the guest house should continue to investigate precisely what guests want and develop innovative ways to meeting guests’ expectation. Keywords: Service quality, SERVQUAL model, customer satisfaction DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/47-05 Publication date: February 29 th 2020","PeriodicalId":121427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128236754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}