Sustainable Beach Tourism: Formalisation Of Local Agenda For Eleko Community Coastal Resources. in Globalization, Culture and the Nigeria Built Environment
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2005-05-01
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Adejumo, O. T.
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Integrated coastal zones management (ICZM) is identified as the most feasible developmental tool to stop the degradation of marine ecosystem. ICZM strengths the management of marine landscapes, preserves aquatic capital, promotes rural development and sustainable utilization of marine resources. Tourism, especially sustainable ecotourism, is one of the clean environmental land uses committed to economic empowerment of coastal communities in line with the current globalization paradigm. Tourism is an appealing sustainable economic development strategy for third world nations in dire need of alternative source of foreign exchange earning and poverty eradication program. The benefits of sustainable tourism emanates from the power of collective decision making in problems identification, needs assessment and solution profferment. Eleko community in Lagos state evolve a home grown participatory beach tourism as an alternative to the dwindling fortunes from artisan fishing industry. This paper examined the domestic beach tourism initiative and formalized the local agenda using an eight step participatory process. The result showed that Eleko beach project was intuitively developed in response to internal economic needs and external social influences. The formalized local tourism agenda identified three projects that can sustain the local economy including short term non consumptive recreational beach tourism, an aquatic resource-based restaurants product and development of eco friendly accommodation.
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Tourism , Beach tourism , Ecotourism , Agenda 21 , Research Subject Categories::TECHNOLOGY::Civil engineering and architecture
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Adejumo O. T. (2005). Sustainable Beach Tourism: Formalisation Of Local Agenda For Eleko Community Coastal Resources. in Globalization, Culture and the Nigeria Built Environment. Ed. by Wale Fadare, Ayo Ajayi, Dolapo Amole and Bola Babalola Vol lI Pp.322-329.