Spatial Distribution of Hotels in Ile-Ife and its Environs, Osun State, Nigeria

This research was carried out to identify, locate and to examine the factors that influenced the pattern of distribution of hotel in Ile-Ife and its environs in Osun state Nigeria. The geographic coordinates of the location of the hotels were collected with a GPS device receiver and their corresponding attributes to build a data base. Using the various technicalities of Geographic Information System (GIS), the spatial statistical analysis was carried out to determine the spatial distribution pattern of the hotels in Ile-Ife and its environ. The average nearest neighborhood analysis was carried out to determine the distribution pattern of the hotels. The result of the spatial pattern of distribution carried out using the Manhattan method of Nearest Neighbor analysis shows a clustered pattern of distribution with NNR of 0.600161 and Z- score of -5.244029.