International Journal of Academic Multidisciplinary Research (IJAMR)   Year: 2023 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 5 | Page No.: 8-15 Impact of tourism in urban development and administration in Enugu state, Nigeria Download PDF Onah, Celestine Chijioke, Onuchukwu Monday, Okafor, Ifeoma Cordelia Abstract: People are the greatest resource on earth. Hence people are known as human capital with the inherent and learnt abilities to determine what their society becomes; whether their society develops with exciting tourism facilities that attract visitors and earns their government revenues, creates employment, earns popularity and prestige, builds aesthetic cities/environments, or to remain stagnated and underdeveloped. Development when achieved, concentrated, and sustained in a place turns the place into urban centre with features of urban development which tourism is integral part of. However, this is a difficult task that many governments are facing and unable to achieve substantially. Thus, the paper investigates the extent which Enugu State government has utilized tourism in urban development. The method implicit in the study is qualitative survey research approach that gathered data through secondary means and descriptively content analyzed. Elitism/elite theory was employed in the analysis. Findings revealed among other things that Enugu State government has taken some identified steps to achieve urban development but paid little attention to tourism development. Therefore, efforts to urbanize the State at the moment do not incorporate tourism development, because they yielded no significant results in developing tourism industry. Recommendations were made as a way to harnessing tourism potentials of the State.