Tourism And Development In Sub Saharan Africa

Author : Marina Novelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781135086336

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Tourism and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa by Marina Novelli Pdf

Over the past 20 years, the perception of tourism as an effective contributor to socio-economic development in the developing world has propagated, with many viewing tourism as a provider for poverty alleviation and towards other UN Millennium Development Goals. Over the same period, readers have become familiar with the paradoxes, complexities and inequalities of tourism in relation to development, wealth creation, growth, redistribution, governance and ‘hosts-guests’ relationships. This volume further extends this critical debate with a much-needed cohesive publication on Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). In an era of fluctuating tourist arrivals at global level, the growth of tourism in SSA requires deeper consideration in terms of its inconsistent and questionable implications at local level. Taking as a central theme the debate on whether tourism should be used in development efforts, this book examines the way in which tourism has controversially become the way forward to development in several SSA locations and assesses bottlenecks to sustainable development as well as dilemmas and challenges faced by those SSA destinations seeking to achieve development through tourism. It offers an explicit set of chapters adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing upon tourism studies, human geography, sociology, anthropology, political economy, development and environmental studies, and integrates case studies authored by local African practitioners and academics to produce a book that gave voice to local experts on local realities. Combining an overview of key theories, concepts, contemporary issues and debates as well as practical insights from a wide range of regions in SSA, this book will be a valuable resource for those investigating the role of tourism in development.

Author : Llewellyn Leonard,Regis Musavengane,Pius Siakwah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000317831

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Sustainable Urban Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa by Llewellyn Leonard,Regis Musavengane,Pius Siakwah Pdf

This book investigates urban tourism development in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the challenges and risks involved, but also showcasing the potential benefits. Whilst much is written on Africa’s rural environments, little has been written about the tourism potential of the vast natural, cultural and historical resources in the continent’s urban areas. Yet these opportunities also come with considerable environmental, social and political challenges. This book interrogates the interactions between urban risks, tourism and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan African urban spaces. It addresses the underlying issues of governance, power, ownership, collaboration, justice, community empowerment and policies that influence tourism decision-making at local, national and regional levels. Interrogating the intricate relationships between tourism stakeholders, this book ultimately reflects on how urban risk can be mitigated, and how sustainable urban tourism can be harnessed for development. The important insights in this book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners across Tourism, Geography, Urban Development, and African Studies.

Author : Kenneth Backman,Ian E. Munanura
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Marina Novelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135086329

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Tourism and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa by Marina Novelli Pdf

Over the past 20 years, the perception of tourism as an effective contributor to socio-economic development in the developing world has propagated, with many viewing tourism as a provider for poverty alleviation and towards other UN Millennium Development Goals. Over the same period, readers have become familiar with the paradoxes, complexities and inequalities of tourism in relation to development, wealth creation, growth, redistribution, governance and ‘hosts-guests’ relationships. This volume further extends this critical debate with a much-needed cohesive publication on Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). In an era of fluctuating tourist arrivals at global level, the growth of tourism in SSA requires deeper consideration in terms of its inconsistent and questionable implications at local level. Taking as a central theme the debate on whether tourism should be used in development efforts, this book examines the way in which tourism has controversially become the way forward to development in several SSA locations and assesses bottlenecks to sustainable development as well as dilemmas and challenges faced by those SSA destinations seeking to achieve development through tourism. It offers an explicit set of chapters adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing upon tourism studies, human geography, sociology, anthropology, political economy, development and environmental studies, and integrates case studies authored by local African practitioners and academics to produce a book that gave voice to local experts on local realities. Combining an overview of key theories, concepts, contemporary issues and debates as well as practical insights from a wide range of regions in SSA, this book will be a valuable resource for those investigating the role of tourism in development.

Author : Iain Christie,Eneida Fernandes,Hannah Messerli,Louise Twining-Ward
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801976

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Tourism in Africa by Iain Christie,Eneida Fernandes,Hannah Messerli,Louise Twining-Ward Pdf

This book presents how tourism initiates economic development and how constraints to the growth of tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa can be addressed. With 24 case studies that illustrate tourism development, it reveals that despite destination challenges, the basic elements needed to initialize or intensify success are applicable across the region.

Author : Iain Christie,Eneida Fernandes,Hannah Messerli,Louise Twining-Ward
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801907

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Tourism in Africa by Iain Christie,Eneida Fernandes,Hannah Messerli,Louise Twining-Ward Pdf

This book presents how tourism initiates economic development and how constraints to the growth of tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa can be addressed. With 24 case studies that illustrate tourism development, it reveals that despite destination challenges, the basic elements needed to initialize or intensify success are applicable across the region.

Author : Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong,Albert Nsom Kimbu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000081607768

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Guide for Local Authorities on Developing Sustainable Tourism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Heidi Keyser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0195780531

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Tourism Development by Heidi Keyser Pdf

An introduction to tourism development, covering the South African technikon syllabus and more, intended for students of tourism and related fields in sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Peter U. C. Dieke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015054271161

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The Political Economy of Tourism Development in Africa by Peter U. C. Dieke Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Ecotourism
ISBN : 9059725425

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New Alliances for Tourism, Conservation and Development in Eastern and Southern Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Donald G. Reid,Chukwuma Azuonye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9797420191

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Ecotourism Development in Eastern and Southern Africa by Donald G. Reid,Chukwuma Azuonye Pdf

Tourism is increasingly viewed by African governments and others as an economic sector which has great unexplored potential for earning foreign currency. It is also recognised that uncontrolled tourism development has the potential to affect the environment and local communities adversely. This book reports on a series of research case studies from Eastern and Southern Africa that explore the benefits of tourism to local communities while protecting their environmental resource. Each chapter includes a short description of the methodology which provides a guide for those contemplating future research projects in ecotourism in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Marina Novelli,Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong,Manuel Alector Ribeiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351022521

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Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Africa by Marina Novelli,Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong,Manuel Alector Ribeiro Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and readable overview of the critical debates and controversies around tourism in Africa, and the major factors that are affecting tourism development now and in the future. Drawing upon research emerging from collaborations between a growing number of African academics and practitioners based in the continent and in the African diaspora as well as international colleagues, the Handbook offers key critical insights into the issues, challenges and trends that Africa and African tourism is facing. Part I covers continent-wide issues such as climate change, ICT, heritage and development. The remaining parts are organised along geographic lines, with each chapter covering the development of tourism, current trends and discussion of critical issues such as community participation, gender, backpacking, urban tourism, wildlife tourism and conservation. Combining an overview of key theories, concepts, contemporary issues and debates, this book will be a valuable resource for students, academics and practitioners investigating the role of tourism in Africa.

Author : Andrew Holden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135175658

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Tourism, Poverty and Development by Andrew Holden Pdf

This book provides a holistic, explicit and detailed introduction to the relationship of poverty and tourism development within the context of developing countries. The book is divided into three distinct sections, progressing from an evaluation of the key concepts, the causal factors of poverty and how tourism is being implemented in policy and practice to reduce poverty, to the relationship of tourism and poverty in the future. The theoretical framework inherent to the text is inter-disciplinary, incorporating tourism, geography, politics, economics, environmental studies, development studies, sociology and history literature to provide the reader with a range of perspectives from which to explore the key issues of the tourism and poverty relationship. It integrates examples and original case studies from varying geographical developing regions including Latin American, Asia and Africa to show practical insights into tourism’s role in poverty alleviation. To encourage reflection on the main themes addressed and critical thinking, ‘Think points’, discussion questions and links to further reading are included in each chapter.

Author : Bruce A. Aylward,Ernst Lutz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 0821353500

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Nature Tourism, Conservation, and Development in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa by Bruce A. Aylward,Ernst Lutz Pdf

This publication considers environmental, social and economic issues concerning the development of nature tourism. Using KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa as a case study, it highlights the benefits and trade-offs in promoting and managing sustainable nature tourism development, and examines how to promote the objectives of economic growth, poverty reduction and conservation. Three key issues are explored: the need to move beyond development of a wildlife industry to the creation of a true nature tourism economy that supports biodiversity; the role of the private sector in achieving equitable development and job creation while generating conservation finance; and alternative pricing and other market mechanisms to encourage the growth and economic viability of nature tourism.