Communication plays a very critical role in ensuring that hotel staffs render better and efficient service through a mutual sense for job satisfaction, career growth and service performance. This study, therefore, aims at evaluating the relationship between the strategies of communication and performance of hotels in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Both primary and secondary data were sourced. Further, quasi-experimental research design was used for this study, while 180 questionnaires were distributed to sampled hotel staffs within the study area. This was achieved using a random sampling technique for questionnaire administration. It was hypothesised that there is no significant relationship between communication strategy and hotel performance in Port Harcourt. Meanwhile, Spearman rank order correlation coefficient with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to test and analyse the data collected. The output of the analysis reveals a positive correlation between communication strategy and hotel performance. Therefore, the alternate hypothesis was accepted and the null discarded. It was, therefore, fit to conclude that effective communication strategy will enhance the level of competitiveness and performance of the hotels in a general perspective.

This paper aims to assess private sector as a panacea for destination development in Calabar. Major private sectors that are involved in the development of hospitality industry were used for this study. The checklist and questionnaire were the methods used for data collection in this study. One hypothesis was tested using the multiple regression analysis. The result from the data collected indicates that the private sector have significantly contributed towards destination development in Calabar. The data collected on the socio-economic impact of the private sector on destination development shows that the private sector have significantly impacted socioeconomic development through employment generation, increase in government revenue, good security and it has encouraged the emergence of other tourism support services in the area. However, in spite of the tremendous impact of private sector efforts towards the development of hospitality industry in Calabar, their activities are challenged by various factors such as insecurity, political instability among others in Calabar. Nevertheless, adequate measures must be put in place to address the challenges faced by private sector in a bid to provide essential services to visitors in Calabar.

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Man as seriously endangered the forest ecosystem, perhaps due to lack of knowledge on the implications of his activities. This paper assesses the influence of modern information system and socioeconomic status, attitude and awareness to forest resource sustainability and conservation in Boki Local Government Areal. Four communities were used of which six hundred copies of questionnaire were administered to residents in the area. The socioeconomic status and the modern information dissemination system were captured in the questionnaire. Findings from the data collected show that communities with high socioeconomic status have positive attitude and awareness to forest resource conservation and sustainability. This result was affirmed in the tested hypotheses which show a high calculated value greater than the critical value.