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THE IDENTIFICATION OF TOURIST ATTRACTION
SITES AND
HOSPITALITY OUTFITS IN NASARAWA STATE
BY
TPL. DANIEL BARAU
AND
OBED L. KPADJI
BEING A RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED TO NASARAWA STATE
JUNE 2013.
ABSTRACT
Successful leisure and tourism requires
supportive facilities. Using questionnaires, observation, and secondary
information tourist attraction and hospitality outfit were identified. A total
of 136 hospitality outfits covering the five major Urban Areas of the state
were visited. Maps and photographs have been provided to show the locations of
the attractions and hospitality outfits. The work suggested the need for
improvement of roads and power supply to increase the volume of tourism, thus
raising the level of employment and income through the multiplies effect.
INTRODUCTION
Tourism is the voluntary and
temporary movement of visitors away from their usual places of residence to
another in pursuit of business or leisure.
Successful tourism requires
supportive facilities such as good communication routes, good transportation,
and security, friendly and accommodation communities. Modern societies have
commercialized tourism, even though in the early times they were not so.
Therefore, the use of tourism support outfits like hotels and restaurants are
essential for modern day tourism to flourish.
This research has identified the
major tourist attraction sites in Nasarawa
State
MAP 1
Photograph 1 captain Maloney Hill Keffi
Photograph 1 captain Maloney Hill Keffi
Photograph 9 Lafia dying pits
Photograph 10 Emirs palace Lafia.
HOSPITALITY OUTFITS
The creation of Nasarawa State
The study identified hotels and guest
houses commonly used by visitors. The findings presented are for the five major
towns in the state namely:
Lafia, Akwanga, Keffi, Nasarawa and
Karu
6.1 LAFIA
a. History
Modern hotel business in Lafia started
in the 1970s with the establishment of
Lafia hotel, Lubuna Hotel and Agwai hotel. However, none of these hotels are in
operation today. The buildings have been converted to different uses based on
management decisions. At the time of the study (June , 2013) about 27 Hotels
and guest houses in operation were identified.
Most of these hotels were established
in the late 1990s and 2000 in response to the growing demand of the new state
capital.
b. Room
Type
The study revealed that hotels in
Lafia have varying number of rooms and type available. The lowest number is
four (4) while the highest is forty five (45). The average number of hotel
rooms per hotel in Lafia is 19 rooms. The study shows that about 209 hotel
rooms are available in Lafia town
c. Room
Rates
The room rates vary from hotel to
hotel according to room type and facilities available.
It was observed that the deference in
prices from hotel to hotel of the same room type e.g standard room is due to
the facilities and services provided thus affecting the comfort of guests.
The average rate per standard room is
N 5,000 per night, luxery room N7.500
per night and executive room N 10,000
per night. Those hotels that have room type of higher standard than the three
mentioned (VIP. or presidential), the average rates are N 44,100.
The lowest rate for a standard room
(lowest category) is N 1,500 while the
highest in this category is N 15,000.
This wide margin is noted to be as a result of the facilities and services
available.
In the category of luxery room type, the lowest is N 2,500 while the highest in this category is N 18,000.
The executive category type of rooms
have N 4,000 as the lowest while the
highest is N 27,000. In the
presidential room type, the lowest rate is
N16,000 while the highest is N100,000.( see Map of Lafia and
photograph)
TABLE 4
PROVISIONS OF FACILITIES IN HOTELS IN LAFIA.
The summary of the result for hotels
in Lafia is as shown below:-
S/No
|
Item
|
Percentage of Availability
|
1
|
Conference
hall
|
48
|
2
|
Air
condition rooms
|
90
|
3
|
Standby
generators
|
95
|
4
|
Internet
facilities
|
36
|
5
|
Swimming
pool
|
29
|
6
|
Laundry
service
|
79
|
7
|
Restaurant
|
93
|
8
|
Bar
|
64
|
9
|
Night club
|
07
|
10
|
Others.
|
07
|
MAP 2
AKWANGA
a. History
Though not the largest town in the
state, Akwanga has one of the earliest hotel in the state which was established
1978. Also the town may not have many hotels, but has the largest and one of
the most expensive hotel in the state.
The study identified 16 hotels in
Akwanga with 258 rooms.
b. Room Types and Rates
The hotels in Akwanga have four room
types, standard, luxery executive and VIP/presidential suites. Only few hotels
have VIP suites. The lowest rate for a standard hotel room is N1,000 while the highest is N 8,000 with an average rate of N 2,800. The lowest luxury room type has N 1500 as lowest and N 9,500 as the highest with an average of N 3,600. Hotels with executive room type have rates ranging from N 4,000 lowest to N 10,500 as highest with an average of N15,200.
Hotels with VIP/presidential room types have rates
that range from N 8200 being the lowest
to N 35,000 being the highest with an
average of N20,000
(see Map 3 and photograph)
TABLE 5
PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN HOTELS IN AKWANGA
S/No
|
Item
|
Percentage Availability
|
1
|
conference
hall
|
50%
|
2
|
Room
with AC
|
80%
|
3
|
Stand
by generator
|
100%
|
4
|
Internet
facilities
|
20%
|
5
|
Swimming
pool
|
10%
|
6
|
Laundry
service
|
30%
|
7
|
Bar
|
70%
|
8
|
Night
club
|
50%
|
9
|
Other
|
10%
|
TABLE 6
PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN HOTELS IN KEFFI
S/No
|
Item
|
Percentage Available
|
1
|
Conference hall
|
61
|
2
|
Air condition rooms
|
77
|
3
|
Standby generators
|
100
|
4
|
Internet facilities
|
28
|
5
|
Swimming pool
|
0
|
6
|
Laundry service
|
50
|
7
|
Restaurant
|
100
|
8
|
Bar
|
90
|
9
|
Night club
|
33
|
10
|
Others
|
05
|
(See Map 4 and photograph)
Photograph of some Hotels in Keffi
6.4 NASARAWA
a. History
The study identified that most hotels
in Nasarawa are of recent establishment.
The earliest being in the late 90s .
Their being recent seems to be a response to the cumulative demand of guests to the federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa and housing requirement of Abuja
The study identified 16 hotels in
Nasarawa all having a total of 215 rooms.
b. Room
Type.
The hotels in Nasarawa are mainly of
three types which includes standard, luxury and executive with a total of 215
rooms.
c. Room
Rates
Standard rooms have N
2000 as the lowest rate and N 4,500 as
the highest rate having N 2,850 as the
average rate luxery room rates have N 2,500
as lowest and N 7,500 as the highest.
The average is N 4,200.00.
Rates for executive room type are N 3,500.00 as the lowest and N
8,500 as the highest, with an average of N
5,250.00.
TABLE 7
PROVISIONS
OF FACILITIES IN HOTEL IN NASARAWA
S/No
|
Item
|
Percentage Of Availability
|
1
|
Conference
halls
|
|
2
|
Rooms
with AC
|
40
|
3
|
Stand
by generators
|
80
|
4
|
Internet
|
10
|
5
|
Swimming
pool
|
20
|
6
|
Landry
service
|
50
|
7
|
Restaurants
|
80
|
8
|
Bar
|
80
|
9
|
Night
club
|
10
|
10
|
Others
|
0
|
