Alola, Uju VioletAlola, Andrew AdewaleAvci, TurgayOzturen, Ali2024-09-112024-09-1120211525-6480https://doi.org/10.1080/15256480.2019.1650686https://hdl.handle.net/11363/8362Insurgency and corruption have consistently remained the bane of economic growth and development of a tourist destination. As such, the impact of corruption indices and insurgency on tourism development in Nigeria is examined by using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach. The finding posits a significant long-run relationship of insurgency-corruption indices-tourism receipts nexus. Also, the result reveals that insurgency significantly hampers tourism performance by causing a decrease in the number of tourism arrivals. The impact of corruption on tourism receipts in the long-run depends on the characteristics of the index. For instance, only the social protection and quality of public administration indices exhibit a long-run, positive and significant impact on tourism receipts. The study presents contemporary policy mechanisms to unlock the country’s tourism opportunities. © 2019 Taylor & Francis.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccesscorruption; insurgency; Nigeria; the CPIA; Tourism performance; tourism receiptsArticle22441242810.1080/15256480.2019.16506862-s2.0-85070865990Q2