1Odetoye A.S.,
2Bashiru Adekunle A & 3Bolaji Josephine Owoseni
1Department of Architecture, Ladoke Akintola
University of Technology, Ogbomosho
2
School of Tourism, Hospitality and Events
Management.
3Department of History and Heritage Studies,
2&3
Kwara State University, Malete, Kwara
State.
Email: etukndara@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
Tourism is defined by World Tourism Organization (WATO), as activities
that involve people travelling from their usual places of abode to other
locations outside their normal environment. The travel must not be more than
one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes’. While
architecture, as defined by Dictionaary.com (n.d), is ‘the profession of
designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial
constructions and environments, with regards to aesthetics’. Architecture is an
essential ingredient of most if not all tourism experiences, framing the
holiday experience and being a tourism attraction at the same time. Approaches which
shape landscape of projects in tourism: participation, compliancy with the
region’s branding, multiple usability of interventions, trans disciplinary
planning processes, service design and more. Architecture’s role in
Architecture and tourism are very closely related activities. It can be said to
depend on each other. Their mutual relationship is obvious since ancient times
where the architecture, as a tourist attraction, had a very important role. This relationship is because there is architecture in tourism and at
the same time tourism in architecture. Architecture and Tourism examines the
reciprocal relationship between the modern practice of tourism and the built
environment. It shows how photography, film and souvenirs have been deployed to
help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries,
behavior and literature are institutionalized for popular consumption in order
to support larger cultural objectives. That is
a place to live, work, recreate, rest, relax and carry out tourism activities,
usually designed by the architect. And tourism creates the avenue of escape to
attractive destinations making architecture a touristic focus. Monuments have
served as tourists’ attractions and have necessitated travels globally for
recreational purposes. In recent times, contemporary architecture is seen to
contribute immensely to the tourism sector and play a significant role in
tourism development across the globe. In Nigeria, in spite of the numerous
traditional architecture and monuments in existence, many are left unpreserved.
Modern architecture is also not being seen as means of attraction for tourism
purposes. Infrastructure, asaverred by Ayeni (2013), are the essential services
and facilities needed for a society to function efficiently. Also serves as a
potential determinant of the attractiveness of a tourism destination (Seetanah
et al., 2011). This paper, therefore, review the role of architecture in tourism
industry development in Nigeria.
Keywords:
Architecture, Development, Nigeria, Tourism.
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