How Nigeria can maximize green potential for tourism development
How Nigeria can maximize its green potential for tourism development By Wale Ojo - Lanre Wednesday 27 September 2023 was World Tourism Day with the theme: Tourism and Green Investments. The theme is not only apt but well-suited for a year that has been characterized by global concern for the environment One cannot underrate the negative influence and impact of the locomotion of mass traffic on a tourism environment particularly as the world is being battled by serious environmental issues like climate change, environmental degradation, pollution, and resource depletion. Nigeria is not absolved from all these environmental challenges especially the effect of Boko Haram taking over some National Parks, shrinking of some dams, rising water levels, indiscriminate logging, poaching of fauna, criminal deforestation, Sea pollution, reckless and abject refuse disposal mannerism, and deliberate neglect of environmental obligation due to lack of awareness about environmental issues. In th