PROPOSED OLUMO ROCK TOURIST CENTRE, ABEOKUTA. (LANDSCAPE INTERVENTION TO BOOST TOURISM)

Abstract

Tourism denotes the temporary or short-term movement of people to destinations outside the places they normally reside and work, and their activities during their stay, at various destinations. Conceptually, it represents various forms of short-term travel and visits and is variously defined for particular purposes with references to the motive of travel or visit, duration and other criteria. The tourist business is a series of interrelated business serving travelers both here and abroad. Tourism rinks people, traver modes, accommodation, in the form of hotels, motels, condominiums, camps and facilities. It is a series of economically related business, which is inseparable from recreation. Tourism overlaps with recreations as a way of using leisure and hence it is important to stress the aspect of recreation in the concept of tourism if tourism is to thrive in any nation. It is in this vein, that the proposed Olumo Tourist Centre has thus been earmarked as one of the tourists centers in Nigeria due to its natural feature; its historical nature and its location. First its location and height which is about 137 metres above sea level (Johnson, 1976) and as wen having a pleasant overview of the Abeokuta Township, makes it interesting for destination.