Positive Tourism in Africa

Herausgegeben:Mkono, Mucha

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781032338514
• ISBN-10: 1032338512
• Artikelnr.: 64269538

Autorenporträt

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.

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Contents



List of Figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Positive tourism in Africa: Resisting Afro-pessimism


MUCHA MKONO

PART I: Tourism and community livelihoods


2. 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,






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


REGIS MUSAVENGANE


4. Understanding the relationships between protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods: A systems thinking approach


MOREN T. STONE AND LESEGO S. STONE


5. 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


6. The 'Afro-positive turn': Undermining Afro-pessimism through Afro-positive digital counter-narratives


MUCHA MKONO


7. Broadening Uganda's tourism product base through indigenous cultural resource utilisation


JIM AYOREKIRE, JOSEPH OBUA, AND MICHAEL BRUCE BYARUHANGA


8. Insight into Africa: wildlife tourism as educational transformation


CHLOE ROOKS, GARRY MARVIN, CAROLINE ROSS AND JONATHAN SKINNER


9. Building cultural resilience in community-based tourism: the case of Goo-Moremi, Eastern Botswana.


JOSEPH E. MBAIWA, GLADYS SIPHAMBE & TSHOLOFELO MBAIWA


10. Leveraging tourism in Kenya through indigenous knowledge


TOM KWANYA

PART III: Governance, integration, and synergies


11. Regional integration: A lever for positive tourism development in Africa?


BINESWAREE BOLAKY


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


ZIBANAI ZHOU


13. Tourism and Economic Wellbeing in Africa


OGECHI ADEOLA, OLANIYI EVANS AND ROBERT EBO HINSON


14. The positive interaction between Tourism Development and Human Development: Evidence from Mauritius


BOOPEN SEETANAH AND SHEEREEN FAUZEL


15. Tourism governance and organizational infrastructure in the East African community: A baseline analysis


BERNARD KITHEKA AND AGNES SIRIMA


16. The contribution of the law to tourism: The case of Mauritius


ROOPANAND MAHADEW AND KRISHNEE APPADOO

PART IV: Crises, controversies, and the future


17. Terrorism and tourism recovery cases: A Study of Tunisia and Egypt.


DAVID ADELOYE AND NEIL CARR


18. The trophy hunting controversy: How hunters rationalise their pastime in social media


MUCHA MKONO


19. Management of a mature destination: Kruger National Park, South Africa


SANETTE FERREIRA


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

MUCHA MKONO

Index