The study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment and trade on international tourism arrival in Nigeria between 1995 and 2025 using WDI (2025) dataset. The study employed Phillips-Perron unit root and ARDL-Bound test approaches as analytical tools wherein the former shows that all the variables are integrated of the first order while the latter shows no long run relationship among the variables. The estimated results show that while a significant and positive relationship exists between foreign direct investment and tourism arrival in Nigeria, a significant and negative association exits between foreign trade and tourism. That is, as foreign direct investment improves tourism, foreign trade does the opposite in Nigeria. The implication of these results among others is that should there be neglect on the FDI attractive policies, tourism will suffer which will spillover to growth and ultimately welfare.