Impact of Iyake Suspended Lake Tourist Centre on Socio-Economic Activities of Ado-Awaye Residents in Iseyin Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria

The study examines the impact of tourism at Iyake Suspended Lake on the residents’ socio- economic activities in the study area. Data for this study were acquired from both primary and secondary sources. Primary sources of data include questionnaire, group discussion and oral interview. Secondary data were sourced from the related existing journals, pamphlets as well as some pieces of relevant information from the internet. Data were analysed using frequency tables and percentages. This study also employed descriptive statistic tools such as histogram, pie chart and bar chat for the analysis using SPSS version 27.0. It was established that tourism at Iyake Suspended has greatly impacted the households particularly in job creation, marketing development and improvement of social facilities. It was also deduced that tourism has contributed to the households’ increasing income generation with self-comfort. Tourism as reflected in the findings built up friendship between tourists and residents with increasing innovations capable of enhancing culture, tradition and residents’ living standards. It was therefore suggested that the youths and the elders should play their own part in self-help community development works for more patronage and residents’ self-reliability. It was also recommended that government at both the local and state levels should be more concerned in transport facilities development and ensure their readiness to increase fund to the tourist center for more tourists’ attraction and beauty.