Community-based tourism for urban & rural development in sub-Saharan Africa
CABI Tourism Cases presents successes, potentials, and challenges of community-based tourism and hospitality for urban and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. The six case studies are free to access until July 31, 2024.
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Tourism and development in sub-Saharan Africa: The context
The tourism industry has become one of the key socio-economic sectors of the sub-Saharan African region.
In the last few decades, the tourism industry in most sub-Saharan African countries has surpassed most other economic sectors in terms of generating business opportunities, foreign exchange earnings, and employment prospects.
Many sub-Saharan African countries have used tourism in otherwise economically marginal lands in rural and urban areas to reduce abject poverty (Novelli & Gebhardt, 2007).
However, concerns have been rising that tourism was only benefitting international companies, foreign investors, and citizen elites.
As a consequence, community-based tourism emerged and was adopted as a tool for local development. But local ownership and cooperation in tourism in the region is still low (Jaensson, 2014).
It is against this backdrop that this special issue explores cases revolving around community-based tourism as a strategy for urban and rural development, with special focus on successes, challenges, and potentialities of the sustainable advancement of tourism within sub-Saharan African countries.
The cases
Guest-edited by Naomi Moswete and Monkgogi Lenao, both of the University of Botswana, these six case studies are free to access until July 31, 2024:
Dryland Villages in the Kalahari region: Opportune for Community-Based Geotourism
In this case study, the authors Naomi Moswete, Kgosietsile Boikanyo, and Julius Atlhopheng chronicle the geological, geomorphological, and cultural heritage resources in and around the Bokspits, Rappelspan, Vaalhoek, and Struizendam villages in Botswana.
Opportunities and Challenges of Community-based Eco-cultural Tourism Development: A Case of Gwirize Cultural Village in Malawi
Felix G Bello and Mathews Lambulira focus on the impact, opportunities, and challenges of community-based eco-cultural tourism at Gwirize Cultural Village in Malawi.
Botswana’s New Tourism Policy of 2021 and Mantras of Citizen Empowerment and Product Diversification: A Case of Going Backward to Move Forward
Monkgogi Lenao addresses the challenges of a government-centred tourism policy in the wake of citizen empowerment and participation in community-based tourism.
Benefit Sharing from Maasai Manyatta Visits
Through in-depth interviews with local leaders and local communities, Magio E Obombo and Charlotte Louwman-Vogels present the benefit-sharing experiences of Maasai communities from cultural Manyatta visits.
Land-Use Conflicts and an Alternative Wildlife Management Option for the Loliondo Game-controlled Area, Tanzania: Insights from a Community Survey
Gileard Sifuel Minja, Jungho Suh, and Yan Tan look at natural resource management conflicts surrounding the 4,000 sqkm Loliondo Game-controlled Area adjacent to the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania.
The Ninki Nanka Trail, The Gambia
Davina Stanford documents the development of the community-led Ninki Nanka Trail, including the rationale for the trail, and how it has evolved through partnership.
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