Published Paper


Socio-Economic Impacts of Event Centres on the Well-Being of Host Community In Ado- Ekiti, Nigeria

Aina Olayinka Christopher

Page: 443-452
Published on: 2018 February

Abstract

This research works which focuses on the “socio-economic impacts of event centers on the wellbeing of host community in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria” tends to discover benefits derived by host community from various event centers as well as its impact on the economy development as a whole. Data for the research work were obtained from the event management, host community as well as the clients/customers of the events centers. A survey design was used and data analyzed using inferential statistics of percentage and frequency in determining the significance of hypotheses formulated. The major findings of the study show that various events centers have impact on the socio-economic wellbeing of their host community. The study recommends that more events centers should be established within Ekiti-State and Nigeria as a whole to improve the socio-economic wellbeing of other environment, it also encourage government at all levels to establish events centre at various area of the state for other citizens to be able to have access to event centers. The study sees event centers as means of creating more employment opportunity for the society as it has become a global and national activity in the current century.

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