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Abstract
This project looks at Application of GIS in tourism in Owerri. Tourism is a service industry that takes care of visitors when they are away from home. Also, tourism is defined as sum of the phenomenon and a relationship arising from the interaction of tourist and host communities in the process of attracting and hosting these tourists, and other visitors (Fadahunsi, 2003) this definition shows that tourism is interactive in nature. There are basically three broad types of tourism. They are Cultural, Ecological and Religious (Aremu, 2001). Tourism has emerged as one of the world’s major’s socio-economic sectors, and has been steadily expanding at an average rate of about 4-5 percent annually during the latter half of the 20th century. The combination of domestic and international tourism is now acknowledged as comprising the world’s largest industry.
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