Sustainable Tourism In Southern Africa

Author : Regis Musavengane,Llewellyn Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000585353

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Conservation, Land Conflicts and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa by Regis Musavengane,Llewellyn Leonard Pdf

This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts, and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution, and redistribution. While Southern Africa is home to important biodiversity, pristine woodlands, and grasslands, and is a habitat for important wildlife species, it is also a land of contestations over its natural resources with a complex historical legacy and a wide variety of competing and conflicting issues surrounding race, cultural and traditional practices, and neoliberalism. Drawing on insights from conservation, environmental, and tourism experts, this volume presents the nexus between land conflicts and conservation in the region. The chapters reveal the hegemony of humans on land and associated resources including wildlife and minerals. By using social science approaches, the book unites environmental, scientific, social, and political issues, as it is imperative we understand the holistic nature of land conflicts in nature-based tourism. Discussing the management theories and approaches to community-based tourism in communities where there are or were land conflicts is critical to understanding the current state and future of tourism in African rural spaces. This volume determines the extent to which land reform impacts community-based tourism in Africa to develop resilient destination strategies and shares solutions to existing land conflicts to promote conservation and nature-based tourism. The book will be of great interest to students, academics, development experts, and policymakers in the field of conservation, tourism geography, sociology, development studies, land use, and environmental management and African studies.

Author : Jarkko Saarinen,Berendien Lubbe,Naomi N. Moswete
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030994358

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Southern African Perspectives on Sustainable Tourism Management by Jarkko Saarinen,Berendien Lubbe,Naomi N. Moswete Pdf

This edited collection focuses on tourism development, sustainability and local change in southern Africa. The book offers a range of both conceptual and applied perspectives that address various changes in southern African tourism and community development relations. The key drivers of change that include climate change and globalization form the context for the diverse and interesting set of case studies from the region. The main conceptual grounds of the book cover sustainability, sustainable development goals (SDGs), responsibility, vulnerability, adaptation, resilience, governance, local development and inclusive growth. In this book sustainability is seen as one of the most important issues currently facing the tourism sector, affecting all types and scales of tourism operations and environments in the region. Tourism is an increasingly important economy in the southern African region and the industry is creating changes for communities and environment while also facing major challenges caused by global trends and changes. The book offers a case study driven approach to sustainability needs of tourism development in local community contexts. The case study chapters are linked through the book’s focus on sustainable tourism and local community development. Through emphasizing the need to understand both global change and local contexts in sustainable tourism development, this book is a valuable resource for all those working in the field.

Author : Jarkko Saarinen,Fritz O. Becker,Haretsebe Manwa,Deon Wilson
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845413651

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Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa by Jarkko Saarinen,Fritz O. Becker,Haretsebe Manwa,Deon Wilson Pdf

Tourism has become a major economic agent and an important social and cultural element in contemporary southern Africa. As such, tourism has a wide range of impacts on environment, economy, cultures, and the everyday life of people. These processes have highlighted the role of sustainability in tourism development.This book represents an accessible examination of the connections between tourism and sustainability in southern Africa. It introduces connections between tourism, sustainability and development with a range of case studies and examples from the region. While the book and the individual chapters are emphasising the key role of tourism in the transition processes of local communities and environments, the social, cultural, economic and political contexts of tourism and communities are also highlighted.

Author : Moren T. Stone,Monkgogi Lenao,Naomi Moswete
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000763713

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Natural Resources, Tourism and Community Livelihoods in Southern Africa by Moren T. Stone,Monkgogi Lenao,Naomi Moswete Pdf

This book examines the connections between natural resources, tourism and community livelihood practices in Southern Africa, highlighting the successes and constraints experienced over the last 50 years. Questioning how natural resources, tourism and community livelihoods relations can positively contribute towards development efforts, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understand socio-ecological systems that characterize the dynamics for sustainable development. It explores the history of conservation and natural resource management in Southern Africa and traces the development and growth of nature-based tourism. Boasting a wide range of tourism landscapes, including national parks, wetlands, forests and oceans, the book draws on case studies from a variety of Southern African countries, including Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, and considers the political challenges for implementing policies and practices. Furthermore, it analyses broader issues such as the impact of climate change, human–wildlife co-existence and resulting conflicts, poor access to funding and poverty in local communities. The book argues that the links between conservation and livelihoods can be best understood by considering the different approaches to reconciling the demands of conservation and livelihoods that have evolved over the past decades. Containing contributions from natural and social sciences the book provides guidance for practitioners and policymakers to continue to shape policies and practices that are in line with the key tenets of sustainable development. It will also be of great interest to students and scholars researching Southern Africa, sustainable tourism and conservation.

Author : Jarkko Saarinen,Jennifer Fitchett,Gijsbert Hoogendoorn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000568417

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Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa by Jarkko Saarinen,Jennifer Fitchett,Gijsbert Hoogendoorn Pdf

This book explores the nature of climate change in southern Africa, its impacts on tourism and the resilience, adaptation and governance needs in various tourism operations and environments. Previous studies on climate change and tourism have mainly focused on the Global North and specific forms of tourism such as snow-based winter activities. Drawing on case studies from a wide range of countries including South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, this book fills this lacuna by describing and analysing the climate change and tourism nexus in the southern African context. The book begins by providing an overview of the current and estimated impacts of climate change to the tourism industry in the region, highlighting the deepening socio-economic inequities, and environmental and social injustices. It focuses on the importance of sustainable tourism in tackling these issues and highlights that resilience and robust governance and policy systems are essential for a tourism destination to successfully adapt to change. By synthesising the key lessons learned through this analysis, Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa also draws attention to specific adaptation and policy strategies which have value for other regions in the Global South. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, tourism and environmental policy and justice.

Author : Clive Duncan
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Heritage tourism
ISBN : 1770251413

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FCS Sustainable Tourism in SA L2 by Clive Duncan Pdf

Author : Belinda Gough
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ecotourism
ISBN : 1770251456

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FCS Sustainable Tourism in SA & Regional Travel L3 by Belinda Gough Pdf

Author : Petri Hottola
Publisher : CABI
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845935092

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Tourism Strategies and Local Responses in Southern Africa by Petri Hottola Pdf

Tourism growth is one of the primary drivers of economic development and is a core strategy at local and national levels to improve the lives of local communities. However, tourism can bring both advantages and disadvantages to communities and not all national strategies in tourism management are applicable or suitable in private, community-based and public sectors. Tourism is used as a main instrument of nation building in many postcolonial countries such as Namibia, South Africa, Botswana and Madagascar. Using case studies from these areas, this book examines the strategic objectives for tourism growth and how nationally-set objectives such as economic growth, increased employment, poverty reduction, black economic empowerment, environmental sustainability and reduction of regional inequalities work at the grassroots level. Challenging ongoing practices and providing new innovations for tourism development applicable to other developing countries, this study will be useful for both researchers and decision makers in tourism.

Author : Lesego Senyana Stone,Moren Tibabo Stone,Patricia Kefilwe Mogomotsi,Goemeone E.J. Mogomotsi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000548976

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Protected Areas and Tourism in Southern Africa by Lesego Senyana Stone,Moren Tibabo Stone,Patricia Kefilwe Mogomotsi,Goemeone E.J. Mogomotsi Pdf

This volume discusses the complex relationship between Protected Areas and tourism and their impact on community livelihoods in a range of countries in Southern Africa. Protected areas and tourism have an enduring and symbiotic relationship. While protected areas offer a desirable setting for tourism products, tourism provides revenue that can contribute to conservation efforts. This can bring benefits to local communities, but it can also have a negative impact, with the establishment of protected areas leading to the eviction of local communities from their original places of residence, while also preventing them from accessing the natural resources they once enjoyed. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this book addresses the opportunities and challenges faced by communities and other stakeholders as they endeavour to achieve their conservation goals and work towards improving community livelihoods. Case studies from Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe address key issues such as human–wildlife conflicts, ecotourism, wildlife-based tourism, landscape governance, wildlife crop-raiding and trophy hunting, including the high-profile case of Cecil the lion. Chapters highlight both the achievements and positive outcomes of protected areas, but also the challenges faced and their impact on how protected areas are viewed and also conservation priorities more generally. The volume gives these issues affecting protected areas, local communities, managers and international conservation efforts centre stage in order inform policy and improve practice going forward. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, natural resource management, tourism, sustainable development and African studies, as well as professionals and policymakers involved in conservation policy.

Author : Garth Allen,Frank Brennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857717412

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Tourism in the New South Africa by Garth Allen,Frank Brennan Pdf

A new model of tourism development has recently emerged out of a widening concern for the environment. Known variously as 'ecotourism', 'new tourism', 'socially responsible tourism', huge claims are made for it in terms of what it might offer in promoting national tourism development. Yet how well does this new model work in practice? And what does it mean to be an international tourist encountering the cultural, political and economic particularities of the South African experience? Garth Allen and Frank Brennan seek to explore the realities of this new morality of tourism as experienced in four important tourist areas of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa: the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park - South Africa's third largest reserve and a vast and beautiful area accredited World Heritage Status; the Phinda Resource Reserve, renowned for its diverse habitats and rich wildlife; Kosi Bay, a wetland area of international importance; and the Durban beachfront. For the first time, they try to locate the international tourist within the moral maze of tourism in the new South Africa. Their analysis can be applied to other societies committed to the belief that investing in tourism development will be a fast track to economic development and will resonate with the moral challenges facing the international tourist.

Author : Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong,Albert Nsom Kimbu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000259278

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Sustainable Tourism Policy and Planning in Africa by Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong,Albert Nsom Kimbu Pdf

Sustainable Tourism Policy and Planning in Africa offers an accessible and understandable overview of the challenges of integrating sustainability into tourism policy and planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and provides some interesting recommendations on how these could be overcome. Tourism is currently growing faster in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and in many other developing regions compared to the rest of the world. Using case examples from different segments of the tourism sector in different country contexts, this volume therefore reassesses context specific tourism policies and planning mechanisms in SSA over the years. It considers how the increasing focus on sustainability is reflected in different areas of the tourism sector including food security, the human capacity management, service delivery, local communities and heritage management, climate change and the influence of colonial legacies on tourism policy planning. For many SSA countries, it has only been in the last two decades that the development of sustainable and achievable context specific policies and planning mechanisms has become the norm. The chapters provide examples of how different dimensions of sustainability are integrated into tourism policy and practice, and examine the extent to which these are shaping the present, and their implications for the future sustainability of the tourism sector. Sustainable Tourism Policy and Planning in Africa will be of great value to academics, private and third sector employees to better understand tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Eight of the chapters were originally published as a special issue of Tourism Planning and Development. These are now complimented with a new introductory chapter and a concluding chapter that sets out a future research agenda for sustainable tourism policy and planning.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1868911861

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Tourism Management in Southern Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lesego Senyana Stone,Moren T. Stone,Patricia Kefilwe Mogomotsi,Goemeone E. J. Mogomotsi
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Protected areas
ISBN : 1032044349

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Protected Areas and Tourism in Southern Africa by Lesego Senyana Stone,Moren T. Stone,Patricia Kefilwe Mogomotsi,Goemeone E. J. Mogomotsi Pdf

Protected Areas and tourism dynamics in southern Africa: An overview / MOREN T. STONE, LESEGO S. STONE, GOEMEONE E. J. MOGOMOTSI AND PATRICIA K. MOGOMOTSI -- Protected Areas and Tourism Development: A Historical Analysis of the Southern African Experience / BOGA MANATSHA AND BONGANI GLORIOUS GUMBO -- Community perceptions of protected areas and tourism amidst poverty: Experiences from Southern Africa / HERBERT NTULI AND EDWIN MUCHAPONDWA -- Ecotourism as a paradigm shift in conservation and community livelihoods in the Southern African region: Opportunities, challenges and lessons learnt / SAID JUMA SULUO AND WINEASTER ANDERSON -- Tolerance for Wildlife Resources through Community Wildlife-Based Tourism: Implications for Sustainability / CHIEDZA NGONIDZASHE MUTANGA -- Landscape governance in sub-Saharan Africa / RENE VAN DER DUIM AND ARJAAN PELLIS -- In the Way of Wildlife: Contestations between Indigenous Peoples' Livelihood and Conservation / ONTHATILE OLERILE MOETI -- The socio-economic impacts of wildlife crop-raiding: An assessment of the efficacy of conservation and agricultural land uses reconciliation / EMMANUEL MWAKIWA -- Protected areas and community-based tourism: the effectiveness of current mitigation techniques in human wildlife conflicts / PATRICIA KEFILWE MOGOMOTSI -- Lifting of the hunting ban and the elephant debate in Botswana: Implications for conservation and development in southern Africa / JOSEPH ELIZERI MBAIWA AND EMMANUEL MOGENDE -- The role of the media and the international community in recent conservation issues in southern Africa: The case of Cecil the lion / GARIKAI CHIMUKA -- Nature-based tourism resources and climate change in southern Africa: -- Implications for conservation and development sustainability / KAITANO DUBE -- International organisations and the ivory sales ban debate: The case of Zimbabwe,Namibia and Botswana / CAROLINE COX -- The COVID-19 Pandemic and nature-based tourism in southern Africa / SUSAN SNYMAN -- The adoption of community-based tourism in the proximity of Protected Areas: Implications for policy and practice./ OLIVER MTAPURI -- Militarization of conservation and "shoot to kill" policies: An analysis of policy instruments on the environment and conservation in southern Africa / GOEMEONE, E.J MOGOMOTSI AND PATRICIA KEFILWE MOGOMOTSI -- Implications of the "High-value, Low-Volume" approach in conservation and tourism resources management / LESEGO, SENYANA STONE AND MOREN TIBABO STONE -- Promotion of pro-poor tourism in southern Africa: conservation and development critical issues / OWEN GOHORI, PEET VAN DER MERWE AND ANDREA SAAYMAN -- Contrasting safari and bushmeat hunting in southern Africa: Conservation and development issues / JULIA LAURA VAN VELDEN -- A synthesis of protected areas and tourism contributions to conservation and community livelihoods goals in southern Africa: A conclusion / MOREN TIBABO STONE, LESEGO SENYANA STONE, PATRICIA KEFILWE MOGOMOTSI, GOEMEONE EJ MOGOMOTSI.

Author : Kenneth Backman,Ian E. Munanura
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351793322

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Ecotourism in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kenneth Backman,Ian E. Munanura Pdf

Since its first mention in the academic literature, ecotourism has been endorsed by NGOs and governments as the most environmentally sound and locally beneficial method of tourist development. Over the last thirty years sub-Saharan Africa has adopted ecotourism as the primary focus for tourism development; research into this has demonstrated mixed results. In this publication, we seek to explore the actual outcomes for African countries that have developed their tourism policy around the principals and values of ecotourism. The sheer scope and magnitude of the task means that a complete evaluation of ecotourism in Africa is impossible. Instead, included here are spot assessments of various aspects of ecotourism related to conservation, policy development, environment, governance, community and indigenous peoples in southern Africa. The studies cover a wide array of countries, including Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Though this is only the beginning of a needed long term evaluation of the positives and negatives of ecotourism, it provides a starting point from which to move forward. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ecotourism.

Author : Susan Snyman,Anna Spenceley
Publisher : CABI
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786393555

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Private Sector Tourism in Conservation Areas in Africa by Susan Snyman,Anna Spenceley Pdf

Using a rich set of detailed case studies, this volume furnishes the first comprehensive analysis of the role of the private sector in conservation areas. For researchers of tourism, development studies and biodiversity conservation this book is a new and important benchmark in African scholarship. -Christian M. Rogerson, Research Professor, School of Tourism & Hospitality, University of Johannesburg. "This is an impressive book that will make an important contribution to the literature on private-sector involvement in the delivery of tourism services in parks and protected areas in Africa." - Dr. Paul F. J. Eagles, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo. Tourism in Africa's protected and conserved areas involves partnerships and interactions between numerous stakeholders such as governments, communities, NGOs, the private sector and academics. Through the use of 32 comprehensive case studies from 11 African countries, this book presents guidelines to ensure optimal benefits for stakeholders as well as promoting the sustainability of tourism in Africa. It includes descriptions of the various models for the private sector to engage in tourism in conservation areas in Africa, such as pure private sector ownership, joint ventures, tripartite agreements and government leases. End-to-end coverage of the processes used to develop these partnerships is provided, as well as best practices for the private sector engaging in tourism. The book provides guidance on identifying the most suitable private sector tourism options based on guidelines of conditions and desired outcomes, to promote the long-term sustainability of African tourism in protected areas. This book is recommended for academics, students and practitioners working in sustainable tourism, including community, private sector and government stakeholders.