Tourism strategies and local responses in Southern Africa
Tourism strategies and local responses in Southern Africa [electronic resource]
Edited by P. Hottola.
- 1
- Wallingford UK CABI 2009
- 235pp.;
- CABI Books .
- CABI Books .
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.
9781845935092
10.1079/9781845935085.0000 doi
eukaryotes nature conservation Namibia vertebrates telecommunications human immunodeficiency viruses Commonwealth of Nations AIDS RNA Reverse Transcribing Viruses infections Africa private sector national parks tourism policy viral infections marketing case studies Africa South of Sahara rural tourism government policy food service animals viral diseases acquired immune deficiency syndrome coastal areas Southern Africa Anglophone Africa rural development tourism development South West Africa Retroviridae nature tourism economic development Lentivirus Chordata information technology Developing Countries subsaharan Africa community development viruses birds catering Orthoretrovirinae human diseases
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.
9781845935092
10.1079/9781845935085.0000 doi
eukaryotes nature conservation Namibia vertebrates telecommunications human immunodeficiency viruses Commonwealth of Nations AIDS RNA Reverse Transcribing Viruses infections Africa private sector national parks tourism policy viral infections marketing case studies Africa South of Sahara rural tourism government policy food service animals viral diseases acquired immune deficiency syndrome coastal areas Southern Africa Anglophone Africa rural development tourism development South West Africa Retroviridae nature tourism economic development Lentivirus Chordata information technology Developing Countries subsaharan Africa community development viruses birds catering Orthoretrovirinae human diseases