The role of museums in sustainable tourism development: The Black Heritage Museum, Badagry
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2013
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The study examines the roles of museum to sustainable tourism development of the black heritage
museum with special focus on the development of Badagry. Most scholars have been writing and are still
writing on the need for cultural resource management laying emphasis on the role they play towards
national development and tourism economic growth. These cultural resources are not properly managed.
However, this mismanagement of cultural resources is becoming directly affecting the conservation and
preservation of our cultural resources. The purpose of this study, among others, is to examine how the
black heritage museum holding could be effectively utilized for sustainable tourism and to make
suggestions for better utilization of the slave relics for tourism promotion. One hundred structured
questionnaires were administered to both visitors and residents in Badagry. The chi-square correlation
and paired sample test methods of analysis were used to analyze the data collected. The findings of the
study reveal that the black heritage museum has played a role to the development of Tourism in Badagry.
There are also some unrealized developments such as the physical development. This research
concludes by recommending the way forward and suggests that general infrastructure development
should be ensured for better sustainable tourism development.