Tourism Perspectives and Administrative Practices in a Globalized Economy

Globalization has been challenging the theory and practice of administrative practices in the Nigerian tourism and hospitality sector at an unprecedented level. Major policy issues, cross national boundaries cannot be solved without international collaboration, even domestic issues will be better understood and addressed with a global perspective. Administration in a globalized economy cannot be practiced in isolation of the culture of the society. This assertion implies that the knowledge, attitude, societal norms and orientation which people hold epitomize their administrative philosophy and their adoption of tourism practices. Administration in Nigeria is practiced in ways and manners which will benefit the administrator and, in most cases, not in the best interest of the common man. Whether in the private sector or in the public sector, some Nigerian administrators would normally use their positions and every other resource at their disposal to amass pecuniary interests for themselves. This paper has elaborately discussed the concept of tourism and its relationship with administrative practices in a globalized economy. Based on the findings obtained from the review of literature, the authors concluded that the adherence and efficient adoption of administrative practices will enhance tourism performance in a globalized economy and thus recommended that the tourism sector of the Nigerian economy should regularly improve on the adoption of administrative practices in other to enhance organizational performance. Furthermore, the authors suggested that more scholars should conduct empirical investigation using the tourism perspectives and administrative practices model provided in this paper to validate the theoretical findings obtained in this study.

Keywords: Perspectives of Tourism, Administrative Practices, The Globalized Economy.