Positive Tourism in Africa

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-33851-4 (ISBN)

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Positive Tourism in Africa provides a crucial counter-narrative to the prevailing colonial and reductionist perspective on Africa’s tourism trajectory and future. It offers a uniquely optimistic outlook for tourism in Africa whilst acknowledging the many challenges that African countries continue to grapple with. By examining broad and localized empirical studies, conceptual frameworks, culturally centered paradigms, and innovative methodological approaches for African contexts, this book showcases the many facets of tourism in Africa that illustrate hope, resilience, growth, and survival.

This volume explores themes such as community-based tourism, wildlife tourism, tourism governance and leadership, crisis recovery, regional integration, the role of indigenous knowledge, event tourism and the impact of smart technologies. It acknowledges the challenges and opportunities for growth that exist in these various contexts and explores how tourism creates value for the spectrum of its participants.

Including a wide selection of contributions from diverse authors, many of them African, this book offers an Afro-centric interpretation of tourism phenomena. It will be of great interest to students, researchers and academics in the field of Tourism and African Studies, as well as Development Studies and Geography.

Mucha Mkono is an Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow at the University of Queensland Business School. Her research focuses on a range of issues in tourism, especially pertaining to Africa, including wildlife conservation and trophy hunting, social movements, and representations of Africa.

Contents

List of Figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Positive tourism in Africa: Resisting Afro-pessimism
MUCHA MKONO

PART I: Tourism and community livelihoods

The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programme in Southern Africa - Promise or Peril? The Case of Botswana
JOSEPH E. MBAIWA, TSHOLOFELO MBAIWA, AND GLADYS SIPHAMBE,

Land reform and the promotion of collaborative community-based ecotourism at Somkhanda Game Reserve, South Africa
REGIS MUSAVENGANE

Understanding the relationships between protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods: A systems thinking approach
MOREN T. STONE AND LESEGO S. STONE

How community-based tourism can survive in turbulent environments: The Mahenye CAMPFIRE project, Zimbabwe SHEPHERD NYARUWATA, TAKARUZA MUNYANYIWA AND CLEOPAS NJEKERAI
PART II: Positive Afro-identities and indigenous cultural resources

The ‘Afro-positive turn’: Undermining Afro-pessimism through Afro-positive digital counter-narratives
MUCHA MKONO

Broadening Uganda’s tourism product base through indigenous cultural resource utilisation
JIM AYOREKIRE, JOSEPH OBUA, AND MICHAEL BRUCE BYARUHANGA

Insight into Africa: wildlife tourism as educational transformation
CHLOE ROOKS, GARRY MARVIN, CAROLINE ROSS AND JONATHAN SKINNER

Building cultural resilience in community-based tourism: the case of Goo-Moremi, Eastern Botswana.
JOSEPH E. MBAIWA, GLADYS SIPHAMBE & TSHOLOFELO MBAIWA

Leveraging tourism in Kenya through indigenous knowledge
TOM KWANYA

PART III: Governance, integration, and synergies

Regional integration: A lever for positive tourism development in Africa?
BINESWAREE BOLAKY

Tourism progress in the SADC region: Post-colonial era milestones.
ZIBANAI ZHOU

Tourism and Economic Wellbeing in Africa
OGECHI ADEOLA, OLANIYI EVANS AND ROBERT EBO HINSON

The positive interaction between Tourism Development and Human Development: Evidence from Mauritius
BOOPEN SEETANAH AND SHEEREEN FAUZEL

Tourism governance and organizational infrastructure in the East African community: A baseline analysis
BERNARD KITHEKA AND AGNES SIRIMA

The contribution of the law to tourism: The case of Mauritius
ROOPANAND MAHADEW AND KRISHNEE APPADOO

PART IV: Crises, controversies, and the future

Terrorism and tourism recovery cases: A Study of Tunisia and Egypt.
DAVID ADELOYE AND NEIL CARR

The trophy hunting controversy: How hunters rationalise their pastime in social media
MUCHA MKONO

Management of a mature destination: Kruger National Park, South Africa
SANETTE FERREIRA

The future of tourism in Africa: Optimism in a changing environment

MUCHA MKONO

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-33851-2 / 1032338512
ISBN-13	978-1-032-33851-4 / 9781032338514
Zustand	Neuware