Direction for the Future of Tourism, Hospitality and Events Management Education in Nigeria

Abstract

The increasing need for leisure travel and the overwhelming tourism development in Nigeria has necessitated high level of human resource management in order to meet up with challenges facing the tourism industry. It should be noted that tourism is a multi-sectoral industry that cuts across other sectors like hospitality and catering services, transportation, travel agencies/airline operators, and of recent the events and convention among others. Of a truth, many leisure, tourism, hospitality, hotel management, and events management students graduate without clear understanding of the magnitude of career prospects awaiting them; while those still undergoing the programme are clouded with doubts about what the future holds for them. This paper therefore seeks to address this problem. It examines the various programmes obtainable in Nigerian institutions of learning and proffer solutions in ensuring academia continually supply the manpower needs of the industry as it related to the tourism industry and its industrial sectors with focus on hospitality and events management in Nigeria.

Keywords: Tourism, Hospitality, Events, Management, Nigeria, Education in Nigeria,