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Author(s): Oyenuga Michael Oyedele, Paul Iorkegh Akwen.

Volume/Issue: Volume 8 , Issue 1 (2025)

Abstract:

The ease with which movements have become pose an exclusive avenue for intercultural understanding hence, the need to grow and venerate wide customs, values, and beliefs. Tourism provides one of the most effective tools for peaceful coexistence and a people-to-people approach. Using the theory of intercultural sensitivity, this research examines the complex relationship between tourism and intercultural knowledge-sharing, investigating how tourist actions can foster interactions of cultural significance beyond recreational enjoyment. By synthesizing literature from studies on resident attitudes toward tourism development, volunteer tourism and its impact on intercultural sensitivity, as well as the impacts of tourism in community participation at a destination this paper demonstrates how gaining more knowledge is important to gauge change related-institutional perspective. This research delves into the complexity association between tourism and intercultural understanding, investigating by what means tourism serves as a connection between assorted cultures, promoting world-wide support and communal respect. Strategies for promoting intercultural understanding by ethical and professional tourism practices, cosmopolitan drilling and community involvement are projected, accentuating the necessity for justifiable and all-encompassing tourism development. The research ended by reiterating the possibility of tourism to provide further pleasant sounding world as long as its problems are tackled through reliable and culturally subtle style.

Keywords:

Developing nations, Intercultural sensitivity, Intercultural understanding, Tourism.

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