Abstract
This research study attempts the assessment of insecurity in tourism development in Nigeria. With the available secondary data on the level and magnitude of insecurity, scholars and researchers have observed that insecurity is a significant challenge to economic development, including sustainable tourism development in any country. Insecurity has increased over time, constituting a serious threat to tourists, obstructing investment activities, and discouraging international business actors, downgrading Nigeria‟s tourism sector. Using the secondary source of data, certain indicators derived from the main composites of the concepts of insecurity and sustainable tourism developments were examined. This rising wave of insecurity has not subsided but has assumed an unsafe facet that threatens the country's tourism development. Rising from militancy, kidnapping, banditry, terrorism, and other criminal activities impeding the country, creating an unsafe environment for tourism growth, there is a need for urgent attention and action. In conclusion, the government should rise and strategize in dealing with insecurity issues and threats. Also, the real solution lies in both government and stakeholders in the tourism sector to accelerate economic growth by creating an economy with a relevant social, economic, and physical infrastructure to support tourism development.
Keywords: Insecurity, Crime, National Development, Tourism, Nigeria
DOI: 10.36349/sokotojh.2022.v11i01.006
