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    Impact of community education on tourism for sustainable development in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State.
    (IAUEL Journal of Universal Research (IJUR). Centre for Continuing Education, (CCE), Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria., 2025-01-18) Kayode, S. T.; Oji, E. W.
    This paper examined the impact of community education on tourism for sustainable community development in Ilorin Metropolis of Kwara State. The descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all the inhabitants’ community members in Ilorin Metropolis of Kwara State. Sample size of the study consisted 150 respondents. Multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select the respondents, In the first stage, stratified random sampling technique was employed to sample of 50 respondents from each of the three local government while simple random sampling technique was employed in the second stage to sample the community members from the community based organization in each of the three local governments. five research questions and two hypotheses were raised and formulated respectively to guide the study. The instruments ‘titled’ Impact of community Education on Tourism Questionnaire’ (ICETQ) and Sustainable Community Development Questionnaire (SCDQ) which was used to collect data from the community members. Frequency and percentage were used to answer the research questions while t-test was also used to test the research hypotheses formulated at 0.05 level of significant. The findings of the study reveals that the level of sustainable community development was found to be moderate; higher percentage of the respondents agrees that tourism has impact on socio-cultural community development, higher percentage of respondents are of positive byway strongly agreeing and agreeing that tourism has impact on economic community development; here is no significant difference between male and female ratings on the impact of tourism on sustainable community development; there is no significant difference between rural and urban areas on the impact of tourism on sustainable community development in Ilorin Metropolis. Based of the findings of the study, it was recommended that interaction should be encouraged among community members , more efforts should be put into maintaining clean and polluted-free surrounding, the government should strive to improve the standard of living of the community members through provision of employment opportunities and there should be inclusion of tourism activities in place without much tourist-attractive centre among others.