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The current study explores consequences of Covid-19 pandemic on Nigerian hospitality industry.Research Methodology: The exploratory study reviewed various reports and literature to make insightful inferences. Findings:The consequences of COVID-19 pandemic on Nigeria hospitality industry include strain on the operations and revenue generation of the industry, steep decline in hotel occupancy rates and low customers' turnover in other hospitality facilities, uncontainable job losses, and mass sales of hospitality business facilities.Research Implications: By establishing the consequences of Covid-19 pandemic on Nigeria hospitality industry, this study offers an insight for the government of Nigeria to put in place business safety nets such as relief fund for hospitality business owners, and implementation of national tax relief policy to repositioning the sector for national prosperity. Aside, hospitality scholars are expected to shift their research focus to develop solutions for the industry. In addition, hospitality business owners in Nigeria should explore business innovative strategies to reach out to their prospective customers Originality: This paper contributes to the literature that examined the impacts of Covid-19 crises on the hospitality industry in an emerging country with focus on Nigeria.

This paper tested a structural model that examines the proposed relationships between hotel attributes and hotel choice in respect to customers in Port Harcourt, Rivers Nigeria. The study used a structured questionnaire hence, a quantitative research design. Multiple regression analysis was used for analysis of data collected using statistical package for social science (SPSS) software version 23. The result shows that all the six hotel attributes have positive and significant relationship with customer's hotel choice behavior in respect to the study area. Result further validates the proposed Hotel Choice Indicators (HCI) Model for hotels in Port Harcourt City. This study contributed to the body of knowledge by proposing and validating the HCI Model for hotels in an emerging economy and Port Harcourt City in particular. It authenticates attribute that influence hotel choice behavior among hotel patrons in Port Harcourt. The study also increased the explanatory power of the push-pull theory in explaining hotel choice attribute or attributes in an emerging economy.

Studies that examined the link between facets of job satisfaction and employees' turnover in respect of hotels in Lagos state are limited in literature. This study therefore aims to determine the correlation between five dimensions of job satisfaction and employees' turnover in respect of hotels in Lagos state. The study adopted a survey design. Through on-site data collection, data were collected from 332 employees of 60 hotels in Ikeja, Lagos state. Partial Least Squares were adopted for the analysis and the result show that four of the five tested hypotheses were supported. The result further show that all the five dimensions of job satisfaction considered in this study put together have the tendency of influencing 43.2% of changes in employees' turnover in hotels in Lagos State. By clarifying the connection between the facets of job satisfaction and employees' turnover in Lagos State, this study offers an insight for effective management of employees' turnover in hotel industry in an emerging economy. Hence, hotel owners and managers in Lagos State can minimize employees' turnover by enforcing strategies and practices gear towards limiting job stress, enhancing promotion opportunity, supervisor's support, and friendly workplace environment. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this study is the first to determine the connection between facets of job satisfaction and employees' turnover in respect of hotels in Lagos State using Smart PLS_SEM approach. The study argued that employees' retention in the hotel industry in Lagos State depends on the combination of management of job stress, enhanced promotion opportunity for staff, suitable supervisor's support, and provision of friendly workplace environment.

Purpose-This paper examines the extent feasible tourism regulatory framework can contribute to unlocking Nigeria tourism economy.Research Methodology-The study been an exploratory study, reviewed various reports and previous literature in this domain of study upon which insightful inferences were made. Findings-The study finds that Nigeria can only maximise her tourism economy potentials if tourism regulatory framework gear towards environmental sustainability, a secure and safe Nigeria, prioritisation of the tourism sector, and promotion of health and sanitary practices are galvanized.Research Implications-By establishing five major areas of tourism regulatory framework, the study offers an insight on the need for the government of Nigeria to vigorously purse effort to sustaining her environment for accelerated tourism business development, taking decisive action to overhauling her security architecture, urgently restore tourism to a full ministry status as against the current merger of the sector including, a bold step to appoint experts as minister of tourism. Others include, announcement in clear terms the plan by the country to become open defecation free country by year 2025.Originality: This study is the first to establish the connection between regulatory framework and the Nigeria tourism economy. The study argues that feasible tourism regulatory framework has the capacity to remodeling the Nigeria choking tourism economy.