Tourism strategies and local responses in Southern Africa [electronic resource] Edited by P. Hottola.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: CABI BooksPublisher: Wallingford UK CABI 2009Edition: 1Description: 235ppContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781845935092
- 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.
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