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Abstract
Despite all these tourism potentials in the North central region, currently, they are facing multiple security challenges like Bandit, Boko Haram, herders, and farmers' crisis, kidnapping, communal conflict. But the most troublesome of them all is the farmers-herders conflict, which hinders accessing those attractions for potential visitors. Not accessing these numerous attractions in the region has negative economic and social-cultural implications for sustainable tourism development in the North central region, knowing the amount of revenue the industry would have added to the Nigerian economy when harnessed for tourist consumption. This paper interrogates the theoretical underpinnings of the conflicts and analyses the implications of the crisis towards sustainable tourism development in the study area. For this reason, the research saw the need to examine the farmersherders' conflict and its implication to sustainable tourism development in North Central Nigeria. To achieve the set objective, the researcher employed a qualitative method. By using a qualitative technique, a documented approach was adopted to gather information or data in the study area. By adopting a qualitative approach, problems identified in the study area include climatic change, depleting space for farming and lack of political well to tackle the crisis, and recommendations on how to stop the farmers-herders conflict in the North central region were proffered. Keywords: Farmers-Herders, Crisis, Sustainable Tourism Development, North Central